Commemoration of the 1945 Slonsk massacre

On 2 February, Ambassador Paul Schmit attended the commemoration ceremony of the 1945 Slonsk massacre.

On the night of 30–31 January 1945, an SS detachment murdered 819 people, trapped in what was then the German prison in Sonnenburg. Among the victims were 91 young Luxembourgish men, who were courageously refusing to serve the German Nazi occupant.

The place called “Sonnenburg" in January 1945 and since then, is one of the most important places in the contemporary history of Luxembourg and of the collective memory of the Luxembourgers. Together with the Holocaust of Jews in Luxembourg, the Sonnenburg massacre was the most important crime perpetrated against Luxembourgers during the Second World War.

On behalf of the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Ambassador laid a wreath at the monument to victims who have been murdered that night and visited at the cemetery with a special monument for the Luxembourg conscripts who had refused to serve in the German army.

During the ceremony, the Ambassador was accompanied by the Honorary Consul of Luxembourg in Poznań, Jan Kuraszkiewicz.

On Tuesday 30 January 2024, Martine Hansen, Minister for Agriculture, Food and Viticulture and Minister for Consumer Protection, took part in a commemorative ceremony in Grosbous (Luxembourg) in memory of the victims of the Sonnenburg massacre.