Commemoration 2024

2 August - European Holocaust Memorial Day for Roma and Sinti

International commemoration and wreath-laying ceremony ​

2 August 2024, 12:00 p.m. – Roma and Sinti Memorial in Birkenau, camp section B II e

Mr. Roman Kwiatkowski
Asociàcia e Rromenqi and-i Pòlska

Mr. Romani Rose
Centràlo Sombeś e germanikane Sintenqo aj Rromenqo

Ms. Alma Klasing
Praʒivdi e genocidesqi

Mr. Bolesław Rumanowski
Praʒivdi e genocidesqi

Ms. Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska
Marśàla e Senatesqi and-i Republìka e Polskaqi

Ms. Bärbel Bas
Prezidènti e Germanikane Bundestagesqo

Mr. Theodoros Rousopoulos
President of the Parliamentary Assembly of
the Council of Europe

Mr. Dani Dayan
Chairman of Yad Vashem, the World
Holocaust Remembrance Centre

Mr. Antonio Guterres
Secretary-General of the United Nations
(video-message)

Commemorative Act of Parliamentary Representatives & Political Leaders | EHMDSR 2024 ​

2 August 2024, 10:00 am – The International Center for Education about Auschwitz & the Holocaust

Dr. Piotr Cywinski
Director of the Memorial and Museum
Auschwitz-Birkenau

Mr. Marian Turski
Auschwitz survivor, member of the
International Auschwitz Council

Ms. Manuela Schwesig
Presidènta e Bundesrat-esqi Germània

Dr. Žygimantas Pavilionis
Deputy Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas
(Parliament), representative of the Lithuanian
Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of
the Council of Europe

Ms. Claudia Roth
State Minister for Culture and the Media of
Germany

Mr. Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski
Secretary of State, Polish Ministry of Foreign
Affairs

The Rt Hon Lord Pickles PC
Chair of the International Holocaust
Remembrance Alliance, UK Presidency

Ms. Tea Jaliashvili
First Deputy Director of the OSCE Office for
Democratic Institutions and Human Rights

 

2 August 2024 - Commemorative Act of Parliamentary Representatives and Political Leaders, Auschwitz

Copyright: Central Council of German Sinti and Roma / Jarosław Praszkiewicz

Copyright: Central Council of German Sinti and Roma / Łukasz Gągulski

2 August 2024 - International Commemoration and Wreath-laying Ceremony, Auschwitz-Birkenau

Copyright: Central Council of German Sinti and Roma / Jarosław Praszkiewicz

Copyright: Central Council of German Sinti and Roma / Łukasz Gągulski

European Holocaust Memorial Day Booklet

Program 2024

International Conference

“My testimony is for young people”
Passing on Memory for the Future
of Holocaust Remembrance and Education

31st of July – 1st of August 2024

Opening event

31 July 2024 – Auditorium Maximum of Jagiellonian University, Kraków

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Under the patronage of the European Parliament

Co-funded by the European Union and Co-funded and implemented by the Council of Europe

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