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Cérémonie à l’occasion de la journée internationale de commémoration en mémoire des victimes de l’holocauste

“We share a commitment to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and to honor those who stood against it. We will encourage appropriate forms of Holocaust remembrance, including an annual Day of Holocaust Remembrance, in our countries”

Without memory, no future. From a European institution perspective, the commemoration of all the victims of the Holocaust and of the Nazi regime is to remind all of us that on this continent the worst is always possible.

As every year, the Council of Europe will commemorate all the victims of the Holocaust and of the Nazi regime through an official ceremony in the headquarters of the Council of Europe with the presence of the Romanian President, of the Cyprus President as chair of the Committee of Ministers. 

Several activities and ceremonies, supported by Council of Europe external offices, will be held in different cities (Kiev, Venice, Tirana, Sarajevo, Chisinau). Music, theatre, songs will be shared in several corners of Europe to remember the voices of all the ones who were killed. On the 26 of January, a training day for secondary pupils will be held in the European Youth Centre in Strasbourg in cooperation with the “Centre Européen du Résistant Déporté”. The programs of some of these activities can be found enclosed.

 Programme of the ceremony

Speech of Mr Toni Pavloski, deputy head of office of the Council of Europe in Sarajevo at the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.

Strasbourg, France 24 January 2017
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The cross-cutting programme “Passing on the Remembrance of the Holocaust and prevention of crimes against humanity” comes within the institutional framework of the 1954 European Cultural Convention and Recommendation Rec(2001)15 on history teaching in twenty-first-century Europe.

"Whilst highlighting the positive advances obtained in the 20th century, such as the peaceful use of science to improve the quality of human life and the development of democracy and human rights, it is necessary to implement the entire range of educational measures with a view to preventing the repetition or denial of the devastating events having marked that century, namely the Holocaust, genocide and other crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and large-scale breaches of human rights and of the fundamental values which the Council of Europe holds dear".
 

This means that:

  • pupils must be helped to learn and know the facts – and their causes – about this darkest period in Europe’s history;
  • there must be implementation, follow-up and monitoring of the Declaration of the Ministers of Education  and schools must observe a "Day of remembrance of the Holocaust and prevention of crimes against humanity", chosen in the light of each member state’s history;
  • activities – to be defined - are needed in the field of history teaching, so as to strengthen trust and tolerance within and between countries and meet the challenges of the 21st century.
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