Belgian PM at Yad Vashem

07 February 2017

The Prime Minister of Belgium, H.E. Mr. Charles Michel, visited Yad Vashem on 7 February. The Prime Minister toured the Holocaust History Museum, participated in a memorial ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance, visited the Children’s Memorial and signed the Yad Vashem Guest Book.

"We come out of the Museum understanding the need to commemorate the Shoah and the horror of the industrialization of murder," Prime Minister Michel remarked at the end of his visit. "Democracy, tolerance and respect are values that should always guide us."

Prime Minister Michel toured the Holocaust History Museum, including the reconstructed "Leszno Street" of the Warsaw ghetto

The Prime Minister was shown the unique exhibit on Righteous Among the Nations – non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jewish men, women and children during the Shoah

Prime Minister Michel in the Hall of Names, which commemorates the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust

The Prime Minister was honored to rekindle the eternal flame in the Hall of Remembrance. He also laid a wreath to the victims of the Holocaust on behalf of the people of Belgium