Athens, 28 January 2022

Hellenic Parliament building illuminated on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

The Hellenic Parliament projected last night on its façade the #WEREMEMBER logo of the international campaign by the World Jewish Congress (WJC) to preserve the Memory of the Holocaust, thus participating in the global events marking the International Remembrance Day honouring the Victims of the Holocaust.  

The building was illuminated following a decision by the Hellenic Parliament President Constantine Tassoulas. 

The Hellenic Parliament used this symbolic way to express its clear stance against antisemitism and confirmed its commitment to the preservation of the Memory of the victims of the Holocaust as a universal message against intolerance and antisemitism. 

The image that was projected onto the Parliament included - besides the #WeRemember logo - characteristic symbols of the Holocaust, such as barbed wire, an inmate's arm tattoed with an identification number and the yellow Star of David, that was used to discriminate against, stigmatise, displace and torture 6.000.000 Jews, among them 67.000 Greek Jews. They were tortured by the Nazis and their collaborators and brutally killed in the German concentration and extermination camps. 

By a unanimous decision, the Hellenic Parliament, in January 2004, designated the 27th of January as the day of remembering and honouring the Greek Jews who lost their lives in Nazi concentration camps, and those who, with unparalelled solidarity and self-denial, saved their fellow citizens from certain death. On 2 November 2005, the UN General Assembly, with Resolution 60/7, designated the 27th of January as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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