On 27 January, the director of the Fundación Tres Culturas, Concha de Santa Ana Fernández, attended the State Act on the occasion of the Official Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust and the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity, held in the Senate.
The President of the Senate, Ander Gil, presided over the event, which was attended by the Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop, and numerous political and institutional representatives. The general director of the Centro Sefarad-Israel, Miguel de Lucas, acted as rapporteur before the attendees, among whom were authorities such as the ambassadors of Italy, Germany and Israel, as well as representatives of different groups, such as the president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain, Isaac Benzaquén; the director of the Institute of Roma Culture, Diego Luis Fernández; the vice-president of Amical Mauthausen and other camps, Concepción Díaz Berzosa.
Interventions on behalf of the various Holocaust victims' groups alternated with musical interludes, and after the lighting of candles in memory of the victims, Rabbi Moshe Bendahan led the recitation of the Male Rachaminh prayer.
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