In the evening, the European Commission and the Cyprus Presidency of the EU Council will be hosting the “Holocaust Remembrance Conference: Remembering the Past. Shaping the Future” in Brussels. The event is meant to pay tribute to the victims of the Shoah “to perpetuate the memory of the atrocities committed in Europe during the Second World War”. Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration, Magnus Brunner, will open the Conference together with the Vice-President of the European Parliament, Pina Picierno. As part of the programme, Katharina von Schnurbein, the Commission’s Coordinator on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life, will also engage in a conversation with Alfred Garwood, a Holocaust survivor. Commissioner Brunner stated: “Our future – and the future of our democracy – depends on our collective ability to remember and learn from the past. With time, the last living witnesses to the atrocities of the Holocaust are passing away. To ensure that we never forget, we are developing new ways to remember”. The EU Strategy on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life “includes 90 actions”, a release states. “This includes, for example, protecting public spaces, spaces of worship and cemeteries. As part of this strategy, the Commission launched the European Network of Sites of Holocaust Memory, to enhance and strengthen Holocaust remembrance in a time of rising antisemitism”.