Ca' Foscari Initiatives - Commemorations for Remembrance Day 2026

Holocaust Remembrance Day is an international event celebrated on 27 January each year to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. The Italian Republic recognises 27 January, the date on which the gates of Auschwitz were torn down, as “Holocaust Remembrance Day”, in order to remember the Shoah (the extermination of the Jewish people), the racial laws, the Italian persecution of Jewish citizens, the Italians who suffered deportation, imprisonment and death, as well as those who, even in different camps and factions, opposed the extermination project and risked their own lives to save others and protect the persecuted.

Once again this year, on the occasion of Remembrance Day, the City of Venice has promoted and coordinated a rich calendar of initiatives proposed by many local organisations: Europe Direct Venezia Veneto of the City of Venice, the Council of Europe, CoopCulture, the Association of Children of the Shoah and Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

Ca' Foscari University of Venice organises ceremonies, initiatives, meetings and shared moments of storytelling and reflection, with the aim of preserving the memory of a tragic and dark period in the history of our country and Europe, and ensuring that such events never happen again. The Europe Direct Venezia Veneto Office of the Municipality of Venice also joins in these initiatives.