"Remembrance is a choice. The Shoah must remain etched on Europe's collective conscience. Because it is by remembering the darkness that we continue to live in the light", highlighted Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić at the Council of Europe ceremony on Wednesday 24 January, marking the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.
Addresses were delivered by the Prime Minister of Liechtenstein, Daniel Risch, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly Theodoros Rousopoulos, the Ambassador of Israel to the international institutions in France, Haïm Assaraf, the Co-Chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Croatia, Sara Lustig, and the Chief Rabbi of France, Haïm Korsia.
The solemn ceremony was concluded by a laying of wreaths in front of the commemorative stone on the forecourt of the Palais de l'Europe and by a moment of silence.
