"Starting at noon on Tuesday, the European Parliament will be holding a special plenary session in Brussels in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. The session is to be opened by European Parliament President Roberta Metsola with a video, who will then deliver a speech followed by a musical interlude. Holocaust survivor Tatiana Bucci, who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp after being deported there aged 6 in 1944, will then address the assembly."
"The commemoration is to conclude with a minute's silence followed by a second musical interlude. A ceremony will also take place on Tuesday afternoon at the site of the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp established in occupied Poland by the German Nazis. All Auschwitz survivors have been invited to attend the event, which will commemorate the 81st anniversary of the camp's liberation."
"The Holocaust Memorial in the German capital, Berlin, will be the site for another commemorative event in the afternoon attended by Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, and the European commissioner for internal affairs and migration, Magnus Brunner. Dobrindt will lay a wreath at the memorial in honor of the millions of Holocaust victims."
Multiple commemorations for Holocaust victims will take place in Europe. The European Parliament will hold a special plenary session in Brussels starting at noon on Tuesday, opened by President Roberta Metsola with a video, a speech, musical interludes, and an address by Auschwitz survivor Tatiana Bucci. The session will end with a minute's silence. A ceremony at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau site will mark the 81st anniversary of liberation with all survivors invited. Berlin's Holocaust Memorial will host officials for a wreath-laying. Additional ceremonies are planned in Moscow and in the German Bundestag with survivor Tova Friedman.
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