Grand Duke Guillaume attends the National Remembrance Day ceremony at the National Monument of Luxembourg Solidarity in Luxembourg-Ville; Credit: SIP

On Sunday 19 October 2025, Grand Duke Guillaume, Luxembourg Prime Minister Luc Frieden and members of Luxembourg’s Government attended a ceremony at the National Monument of Luxembourg Solidarity in Luxembourg-Ville to mark National Remembrance Day.

Luxembourg's National Remembrance Day has its origins in the census of 10 October 1941, where the occupying Nazis wanted to know, among other information, whether the inhabitants of the occupied Grand Duchy of Luxembourg were Jewish and what their nationality, mother tongue and "race" were. The resistance called for the last three questions to be answered with "Luxembourgish". Many people followed this call, which led to the census being cancelled.

At the ceremony, the Grand Duke met with representatives of the Committee for the Remembrance of the Second World War, as well as representatives of patriotic movements and other associations, including the Luxembourg Scouts.

Additional memorial services also took place across the city at the Gëlle Fra (Golden Lady statue), the Kaddish Monument (Memorial to the Victims of the Shoah) and the Deportation Memorial.