Holocaust survivors in Austria and Slovakia received the coronavirus vaccine on the Holocaust Day of Remembrance. This day is to commemorate the people who died in genocide as it was this day that the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated 76 years ago.

According to the report, nearly  400 people aged 85 and older, many of them Holocaust survivors, were vaccinated in Vienna on Wednesday. The Jewish Community of Vienna helped organize the program in cooperation with the Austrian Ministry of Health.  According to executive director of the Jewish Community of Vienna, who helped organize the event, around 12 doctors administered vaccinations. According to the report of the Hill, a similar initiative occurred in Slovakia with more Holocaust survivors getting vaccinated on Wednesday.

President of the European Jewish Congress Moshe Cantor called on European leaders, this week, to ensure that Holocaust survivors were given access to the vaccine. Nearly 20,000 Holocaust survivors are still living in Europe. The International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the six million victims of the Holocaust, the genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945.

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