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The European Union and the memory of the Holocaust

The term ‘Holocaust’ refers to the murder of six million European Jews, as well as Roma and members of other social groups who were condemned to annihilation by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. From 1933 onwards, the Nazi regime implemented a policy of plunder, state-sanctioned discrimination and persecution of Jews, followed by pogroms and mass deportations to concentration camps.

This policy was subsequently extended to all the territories and states under its control in Europe during the Second World War. This culminated in mass summary executions (‘the Shoah by bullets’) and the extermination camps. The perpetrators were tried at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945–1946, but the tribunal chose to charge them with crimes against humanity rather than genocide.

It was not until 2005, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, that a United Nations resolution designated 27 January as the International Day of Commemoration of the Holocaust, also known as the ‘International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust’. Within the European Union, numerous programmes are designed to keep alive the memory of these tragedies that have marked the continent’s history.

As early as 1995, the European Parliament adopted resolutions emphasising the duty to remember, not only through commemorations but also through education. In November 2018, the European Union became a permanent international partner of the International Alliance for Holocaust Remembrance (IAHR). This information note is an updated version of the one published in January 2018.

Our professional photographer, Daïna Le Lardic, captured the event on the European Union and Holocaust remembrance. She documented the key moments within the European Parliament.

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View Daïna LE LARDIC’s photo gallery on the European Parliament website.

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Source: website of the European Parliament