International Holocaust Remembrance Day:

Extracts from the Ceremony with - Moshe KANTOR, President of the European Jewish Congress - Maroš ŠEFČOVIČ, Vice-President of the EC in charge of Inter-Institutional Relations and Administration - Martin SCHULZ, EP President.

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day was celebrated under the presence of Martin SCHULZ, EP President at the Premises of the European Parliament in Brussels.

At the ceremony participated Moshe KANTOR, President of the European Jewish Congress and Maroš ŠEFČOVIČ, Vice-President of the EC in charge of Inter-Institutional Relations and Administration.

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day is an international memorial day for the victims of the Holocaust, the genocide that resulted in the annihilation of 6 million Jews, 2 million Gypsies (Roma and Sinti), 15,000 homosexual people and millions of others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.

 President Martin SCHULZ has recently stated the commemoration of the Holocaust as a bindind moment for the European Parliament.