Message by President Jean-Claude Juncker on the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day 2017

On 26 January 2017 President Jean-Claude Juncker made a statement marking Holocaust Remembrance Day 2017. In his message he spoke of the duty that has become more compelling as every year the survivors of the Holocaust have become fewer and fewer, which has left the younger generations with the responsibility to carry a message that cannot lose its strength.

He also spoke of the European Union as a project rooted in the history of the European continent and fully shares this duty of remembrance. In these challenging times, memory has not only been a reminder of the past, but a compass for the future to not repeat the same mistakes and to not fall into the same traps like we have done so by allowing discrimination and hatred to spread.

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ESO: Background information: Statement: Message of condolence from President Juncker on the passing away of Imre Kertész, survivor of the Holocaust and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature http://www.europeansources.info/record/statement-message-of-condolence-from-president-juncker-on-the-passing-away-of-imre-kertesz-survivor-of-the-holocaust-and-winner-of-the-nobel-prize-in-literature/

ESO: Background information: Statement: Message by President Jean-Claude Juncker to the Jewish community on the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day 2016 http://www.europeansources.info/record/statement-message-by-president-jean-claude-juncker-to-the-jewish-community-on-the-occasion-of-holocaust-remembrance-day-2016/

EP: EPRS: Briefing, January 2018: L'Union européenne et la mémoire de l'Holocauste http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2018/614662/EPRS_BRI(2018)614662_FR.pdf

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