On Saturday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day will be celebrated in the Czech Republic, as in many other countries. At the Terezín / Theresienstadt Memorial, for example, there will be a candlelight parade again. It begins at the former loading dock from which tens of thousands of ghetto prisoners had to travel to the extermination camps. The event will be attended by, among others, the head of the memorial, Jan Roubínek, and the Vice-Chairman of the European Commission, Věra Jourová.
A meeting also takes place at the castle of Mladá Boleslav / Jungbunzlau. This was used to intern Jews from the area between 1940 and 1943. The names of the victims will be read out at the event.
On January 27, 1945, the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated. That is why this date has been chosen in many countries as a day of remembrance of the Holocaust and the prevention of crimes against humanity.