News item | 25-01-2024 | 13:26
Prime Minister Rutte will attend the National Holocaust Remembrance Day in Amsterdam on Sunday, January 28, 2024. During the commemoration, the Prime Minister will give a speech and, together with State Secretary Van Ooijen of Health, Welfare and Sport, he will lay a wreath at the Mirror Monument ‘Never again Auschwitz’.
Since 2015, the date of liberation of Auschwitz, January 27, 1945, has been an international day of remembrance established by the UN: The Holocaust Memorial Day. Victims of the Holocaust and other genocides are commemorated around the world on that date. The National Holocaust Remembrance takes place every year in the Wertheim Park in Amsterdam on the last Sunday in January.