TALLINN – A formal plenary session of the European Parliament will be held in Brussels on Tuesday to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, with Holocaust survivor Tatiana Bucci in attendance.
January 27, 2026, marks the 81st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The European Parliament will commemorate the day with a memorial session, opened by President Roberta Metsola. Her speech will be followed by a musical performance, after which Holocaust survivor Tatiana Bucci will address the session.
The session will conclude with a minute of silence in memory of the Holocaust victims.
Tatiana Bucci was born in 1937 in Fiume, a city in present-day Croatia. In 1944, her family was arrested by the Nazis. Six-year-old Tatiana, her four-year-old sister Andra, along with their mother, aunt, grandmother, and cousin, were first taken to the Risiera di San Sabba transit camp and then transferred to Auschwitz on April 4, 1944. The children remained there for ten months. Their mother, Mira, was sent from the camp to a German ammunition factory for forced labor, while their father, Giovanni, was a prisoner of war in South Africa.
When Auschwitz was liberated, the girls were sent to an orphanage in southern England. They were finally reunited with their parents in Italy in December 1946. Tatiana now lives with her family in Belgium. In 1996, she revisited Auschwitz for the first time; despite their young age at the time, both Tatiana and Andra remember their time there.
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