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Media are invited to interview Holocaust survivor Tatiana Bucci, who will participate in a special plenary session on 27 January marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Journalists will be able to interview Holocaust survivor Tatiana Bucci, who will address MEPs at the ceremony for International Holocaust Remembrance Day taking place on Tuesday at 12:00 in the European Parliament in Brussels.

To request an interview please contact Isabelle ZERROUK before Monday 26 January at 13.00.

The interviews will take place on Tuesday 27 January from 10.00 to 11.00 and from 15.30 to 16.00, at the European Parliament.

The ceremony

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola will open the ceremony at noon with a video. She will then deliver a speech, to be followed by a musical interlude. Holocaust survivor Tatiana Bucci will then address MEPs. The commemoration will conclude with a minute’s silence in honour of the victims of the Holocaust and a second musical interlude.

You can follow the ceremony live on Parliament’s streaming website and on EbS+.

Tatiana Bucci

Tatiana Bucci was born in 1938 in Fiume, a town then in northern Italy and now in modern-day Croatia. In 1944, the Nazis arrested Tatiana and her family and imprisoned them at Risiera di San Sabba, a transit concentration camp in northern Italy. Tatiana was just six years old when she and her four-year-old sister Andra, and their mother, aunt, grandmother and cousin were deported to Auschwitz on 4 April 1944. The sisters spent 10 months in Auschwitz. Their mother, Mira, was transferred from Auschwitz to Germany for forced labor in a munitions factory. Their father, Giovanni, was a prisoner of war in South Africa during the war. Tatiana and Andra Bucci are among the youngest child survivors of Auschwitz who have memories of their experience.