This is the first Remembrance Day on which the victims of communism and the Holocaust are remembered at the same time, the State Secretary emphasised, adding that designating such a day in Europe has been of paramount importance both for Hungary and Central Europe. Mr. Ágh stated that dictatorships destroyed the 20th century and this is why it is important to "bow our heads" before all of the victims of those regimes.

In 2011, following a Polish-Hungarian-Lithuanian initiative, EU justice ministers established August 23, the day the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed in 1939, as the Remembrance Day to commemorate the victims of totalitarian regimes. The European Day of Remembrance was observed for the first time in 2011.

Source: Ministry of Public Administration and Justice