Claude Wiseler, President of the Chamber of Deputies; Luc Frieden, Luxembourg Prime Minister; Marc Thewes, President of the Council of State;
Credit: SIP / Julien Warnand
On Tuesday 27 January 2026, Luxembourg Prime Minister Luc Frieden joined commemorative associations, the Jewish community of Luxembourg and government officials in Luxembourg City to mark the International Day Commemorating the Victims of the Shoah.
A commemorative ceremony took place at the monument dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Shoah (Kaddish), located near the new Wall of Remembrance for Jewish victims of Nazism, in Luxembourg-Ville. Inaugurated on 21 September 2025, it is inscribed with the names of 1,225 individuals.
Those in attendance included Claude Wiseler, President of the Chamber of Deputies, Claude Marx, Honorary President of MemoShoah and Holocaust survivor, Joseph Lorent, vice-president of the Committee for the Memory of the Second World War (CM2GM), president of the Federation of Forced Conscripts (FEDEF), Marc Thewes, President of the Council of State; Maurice Bauer, first alderman of the City of Luxembourg; Patrick Goldschmidt, alderman of the City of Luxembourg, and Alain Nacache, Chief Rabbi of Luxembourg.
The International Day Commemorating the Victims of the Shoah was established by the United Nations in 2005. It marks the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945 by the Red Army.
