January 27th yearly commemorates the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a date chosen by the United Nations to remember the liberation of the camp extermination of Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland) in 1945 and to honour the victims.

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day is conceived to keep alive the memory of this barbarism and to educate for the future, against intolerance, discrimination and racism.

Program

7:00 p.m
Presentation and Reading of resolution 60/7 of the General Assembly of the United Nations (2005) by Assumpció Hosta, director of Patronat Call de Girona.

7:05 p.m
"Recordar la Xoà al segle XXI: entre localisme, cosmopolitisme i el risc de l'oblit". Speech by Alfons Aragoneses, general director of Democratic Memory

7:40 p.m
"Zachor, el deure de la memòria". Speech by Victor Sorenssen, director of AEPJ (European Association of Jewish Heritage)

7:50 p.m
Lighting of the candle of remembrance

7:55 p.m
Closure by Mrs. Marta Madrenas, Mayor of Girona and President of Patronat Call de Girona

Event in Catalan language. Free entrance. Registration required.

Place: Plenary Hall of the City Council. Photo: Pedres de Girona