YOUNG PEOPLE IN FIVE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES COMMEMORATE WITH THEATRE ON INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY 27 JANUARY 2023

Friday 27 January 2023 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day declared by the United Nations. That day marks the sixth edition of Theatre of Remembrance, an international theatre event where young people from five European countries create theatre about the Second World War. This year, there are projects in Italy, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and the Netherlands. In Amsterdam, there is a theatrical route following the National Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday 29 January 2023.

Theatre of Remembrance Europe
On 27 January 2023, young people across Europe are committed to adding meaning to International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Under the manifesto Theatre of Remembrance, initiated by Theater Na de Dam, youth performances are playing this year in Turin, Prague, Warsaw, Nitra and Amsterdam. Starting from conversations with older people who lived through the war, young people research, question and philosophise about the meaning of the Second World War for the times in which they live today.

Jaïr Stranders on Theatre of Remembrance
‘That young people in several European cities are connecting with the war stories of older people in their cities as part of International Holocaust Remembrance Day and then sharing them theatrically with their families, friends and fellow townsmen offers – with so much populism, polarisation and Holocaust denial in Europe – a lot of hope,’ said Jaïr Stranders, artistic director Theatre After Dam.

Theatre of Remembrance Amsterdam
On Sunday 29 January 2023, following the National Holocaust Commemoration at the Spiegelmonument in Amsterdam (organised by the Dutch Auschwitz Committee), the theatrical route Against Forgetting will take place, played and accompanied by four young people.