HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE CONFERENCE
Remembering the past. Shaping the future.

23 JANUARY 2023, 17.OO - 19.00 CET
LIVESTREAM

Today, 23 January 2023 at 5 PM CET, on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the European Commission, the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the Swedish Presidency of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance will host the 'Holocaust Remembrance Conference: Remembering the past. Shaping the future.'

This conference is organised in cooperation with the American Jewish Committee Transatlantic Institute, B’nai B’rith Europe, B’nai B’rith International, European Jewish Congress, European Jewish Community Center, European Union of Jewish Students, and World Jewish Congress.

Margaritis Schinas, European Commission Vice-President for Promoting our European way of Life, alongside Paulina Brandberg, Swedish Minister for Gender Equality and Deputy Minister for Employment, Amb. Ann Bernes, Chair of the Swedish Presidency of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and Professor Yehuda Bauer, International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Honorary Chair and Holocaust Survivor, will deliever the opening statements. The opening will be followed by a conversation with Holocaust Survivor Henriette Kretz, a commemoration ceremony and a panel discussion on 'Where the Holocaust happened'.

Please visit the website of the event for the full programme and follow the livestream here.

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Henriette Kretz, Holocaust survivor, was born in 1934 in Stanisławów, Poland, today Iwano-Frankiwsk in Ukraine. The persecution of her family started immediately after the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. Henriette and her family found refuge in Lviv and then in Sambor in Eastern Poland. After the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, her family lived in a ghetto and had to hide for long months in order to survive.