Czechs mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Events marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day to honour the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism will be held around Czechia on Saturday.

A candlelight procession will be held in Terezín, in presence of the head of the Terezín Memorial Jan Roubínek and Vice-President of the European Commission Director of the Terezín Memorial, and Věra Jourová,

A public reading of the names of the Holocaust victims will take place at the castle in Mladá Boleslav, where Jews from the surrounding area were interned between 1940 and 1943.

International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust is celebrated on January 27, the day that Red Army troops entered the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp complex in 1945.