News item | 27-01-2023 | 5:06 PM
Prime Minister Rutte will attend the National Holocaust Remembrance Day in Amsterdam on Sunday, January 29, 2023. During the commemoration, the Prime Minister and State Secretary Van Ooijen of Health, Welfare and Sport will lay a wreath at the Spiegelmonument ‘Never again Auschwitz’.
Since 2015, Auschwitz’s liberation date, January 27, 1945, is a UN-established International Day of Remembrance: The Holocaust Memorial Day. All over the world, victims of the Holocaust and other genocides are commemorated on that date.
The National Holocaust Remembrance Day takes place every year in the Wertheimpark in Amsterdam on the last Sunday in January.