{"id":9758,"date":"2017-01-24T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T15:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/?p=9758"},"modified":"2017-01-24T17:30:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T15:30:07","slug":"commemoration-events-for-victims-of-the-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/commemoration-events-for-victims-of-the-holocaust\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemoration events for victims of the Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coe.int\/web\/secretary-general\/home\">Secretary General <\/a>Thorbj\u00f8rn\u00a0Jagland today opened a series of ceremonies to mark the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>In front of the commemorative stone on the forecourt of the\u00a0Palais de l\u2019Europe, addresses and wreath-laying were also made by Nicos\u00a0Anastasiades, President of the Republic of Cyprus, Klaus Werner\u00a0Iohannis, President of Romania; Carmel\u00a0Shama-Hacohen, Ambassador of Israel to the international institutions in France, Miranda\u00a0Vuolasranta, President of the European Roma and Travellers Forum and Denis\u00a0Erhart, President of &#8220;Les Oubli\u00e9(e)s&#8221; de la M\u00e9moire Association Civile Homosexuelle du Devoir de M\u00e9moire. Closing remarks were made by Pedro\u00a0Agramunt, President of the Parliamentary Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Commemoration ceremonies and Remembrance events will also take place in several\u00a0member states with the support of their Council of Europe\u00a0field offices.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibitions \u201cEducation and Remembrance\u00a0&#8211; The Holocaust in Romania\u201d and \u201cThere was a life\u201d will be on display at the\u00a0Ante-Room of the Committee of Ministers, and\u00a0a\u00a0training activity for school children\u00a0will be held\u00a0at the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coe.int\/t\/dg4\/youth\/eyc\/strasbourg_EN.asp\"> European Youth Centre <\/a>in Strasbourg on 26\u00a0January.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coe.int\/en\/web\/chairmanship\/-\/day-of-remembrance-of-the-holocaust-and-for-the-prevention-of-crimes-against-humanity\">Statement by the Chair of the Committee of Ministers, Ioannis Kasoulides, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cyprus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary General Thorbj\u00f8rn Jagland today opened a series of ceremonies to mark the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,54,55,295],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9760,"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758\/revisions\/9760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}