On Sunday 7 July 2024, Martine Hansen, Luxembourg’s Minister of Agriculture, Food and Viticulture, Minister for Consumer Protection, will participate in the commemorative ceremony at the former Cinqfontaines convent.
Luxembourg’s Ministry of State and the Second World War Remembrance Service noted that, during the Second World War, the Nazi occupier used the Cinqfontaines Abbey as an internment site for around 300 Jews before their deportation to concentration and extermination camps.
Since 2022, an educational and memorial centre has been located at this memorial site. The former convent was purchased by the Luxembourg State as part of the agreement of 27 January 2021 with the Jewish Community, to promote the memory and study of the Holocaust, as well as humanism and human rights. The activities of the "Centre Cinqfontaines" are organised by a team from the National Youth Service and the Zentrum fir politesch Bildung.
The commemorative ceremony will be followed by the presentation of the first activity report of the Centre Cinqfontaines, the ministry announced.
