On Tuesday 13 January 2026, the Zentrum fir politesch Bildung (ZpB) announced the upcoming tenth edition of Holocaust Remembrance Day, which coincides with the organisation’s tenth anniversary.
Taking place from Monday 19 January to Friday 6 February 2026, the event will feature more than 100 educational activities and public events at over 20 locations across the Grand Duchy.
The programme of public events will include the film lecture Austerlitz on Friday 23 January at Cercle Cité in Luxembourg-Ville, as well as the film screening and discussion Treasure on Friday 6 February in Ciné Scala (regional cinema) in Diekirch.
The programme will also highlight the publication of Roland Meyer’s children’s book Betty. Geschichte eines jüdischen Mädchens, with a first public reading on Thursday 1 February at the Cinqfontaines Memorial Centre.
Since 2005, 27 January has been designated International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Since 2017, the ZpB and its partners have been organising an educational programme around this date.
Historically, on 27 January 1945, allied forces liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest concentration and extermination camp of the Nazi regime.
On the eve of the German invasion, Luxembourg was home to around 4,000 Jews, most of them refugees. Nazi authorities expropriated, persecuted, expelled or deported them to concentration camps, often via Cinqfontaines. The Nazis murdered most of the deported; only 81 survived.
