News item | 17-12-2024 | 20:41
Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima, Her Royal Highness the Princess of Orange, Prime Minister Schoof and State Secretary Karremans of Youth, Prevention and Sport will be present in Poland on Monday, January 27, 2025, at the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the former German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Known as Nazi Germany’s largest concentration and extermination camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by the Soviet army on January 27, 1945. Following a United Nations resolution, this date was declared International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2005.
Former prisoners and Holocaust survivors are present at the annual commemoration. During the ceremony, the other victims of the Nazi period are also commemorated. The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum organizes the commemoration.
Eighty years of freedom will be celebrated and commemorated at various times and places in 2024 and 2025. Members of the Royal House will attend various celebrations and commemorations in this lustrum year. They thus support the commitment to values such as freedom, justice and democracy, which can never be taken for granted.