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
Association of Roma in Poland

Mr. Romani Rose
Central Council of German Sinti and Roma

Ms. Alma Klasing
Holocaust survivor

Mr. Bolesław Rumanowski
Holocaust survivor

Ms. Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska
Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland

Ms. Bärbel Bas
President of the German Bundestag

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
President of the Bundesrat of Germany

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

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

European Holocaust Memorial Day Booklet

Program 2024