The President of the Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance of Greek Jewish Martyrs and Heroes of the Holocaust, laid a wreath at the Holocaust Memorial, in Thissio.
With the slogan #WE REMEMBER, of the International Holocaust Remembrance Campaign, the facade of the Hellenic Parliament Building was illuminated today.
The lighting takes place one day before International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is traditionally January 27th.
With this illumination, the Greek Parliament sends a resounding public message of Remembrance against Forgetfulness, seeking to keep the Memory of the Holocaust alive and publicly and strongly declaring its opposition to anti-Semitism and all forms of hatred and racism.
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On 18.4.2023 approximately 40 Holocaust survivors were at the head of the March of the Living. 10.000 people took part in the march, in memory of the victims of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Every year, thousands of young people, Jews and others, from all over the world take part in this march which is organized on the site of the death camp operated by the Nazis in occupied Poland during World War II.
Auschwitz-Birkenau is the symbol of the genocide committed by the Nazi regime against the Jews of Europe. Almost a million people died in this camp between 1940-45. Among them were 80.000 Poles (non-Jews), 25.000 Roma and 20.000 Soviet soldiers. The camp was liberated by the Red Army on January 27, 1945.
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City alarm sirens and church bells rang on 19.4.2023 at noon in the Polish capital, triggering the start of commemorative events for the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
The uprising, which broke out on April 19, 1943, is the largest event of Jewish resistance against the Nazis during World War II, an event during which many armed Jews attacked the Nazis.
The presidents of Israel, Isaac Herzog, and Germany, Frank Walter Steinmeier, accompanied by their Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, appeared together in front of the monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto, opposite the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, located at the site of battles during the uprising.
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