The President will take part in a requiem to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and will see the exhibition of the Man and Catastrophe project dedicated to one of the most tragic pages in the 20th-century history – the mass annihilation by Nazis of concentration camp inmates.
The International Holocaust Remembrance Day was established by the UN General Assembly on November 1, 2005, and was first marked in 2006. The date of January 27 was chosen because that was the date when Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp.