Prime Minister Stubb's statement on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Tuesday 27 January marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The International Holocaust Remembrance Day is honoured both in Finland and abroad.

"Finland is strongly committed to act against discrimination, xenophobia and antisemitism. Governments together and people as individuals must take decisive action to prevent any threat and violence limiting the freedom of religion, beliefs or expression. Finland honours the memory of the Jews, Roma, people with disabilities or of sexual minorities and others who perished in the Holocaust and those who survived", Prime Minister Alexander Stubb says.

President of the Republic Sauli Niinistö will present his address at a commemoration organised at the synagogue of the Jewish Community of Helsinki. The main commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day will be held at the holocaust museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Finland will be represented by Speaker of Parliament Eero Heinäluoma and former Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen.