President Roberta Metsola opens the ceremony, which also marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on 27 January.

Corrie Hermann, daughter of cellist and Holocaust victim Pál Hermann, addresses MEPs in a plenary session marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In her address Corrie Hermann shares the story of how her father, Hungarian composer and cellist Pál Hermann, considered as one of the finest cellists of his time, was murdered by the Nazis in 1944. “This story about one Holocaust victim is dedicated to every one of the six million victims whom we deplore today”, she says.

The ceremony ends with a musical performance of "Kaddish" by Maurice Ravel.