Article - Parliament pays tribute to the victims of the Holocaust
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Wednesday, January 29, 2020
The European Parliament opened the plenary session of Wednesday 29 January with a solemn ceremony in memory of the six million victims of the Holocaust.
Key Points:
- The European Parliament opened the plenary session of Wednesday 29 January with a solemn ceremony in memory of the six million victims of the Holocaust.
- Whenever we read in newspaper articles of acts of violence, attacks, or racist insults, we must consider these attacks addressed at each of us.
- In her speech, Liliana Segre, Italian senator for life and survivor of Auschwitz, said: I am extremely moved to be here in the European Parliament.
- The term Holocaust refers to the mass murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.