For years, symbolically on this date the international community remembers the horrors of Shoa when more than 6 million Jews were murdered in concentration camps during the Second World War, as well as the urgent need to continuously fight anti-Semitism as well as other forms of racial or religious hatred and intolerance. The event was organized by the Ministry of Education and Research of Estonia in co-operation with the Jewish Community of Estonia.

The participants of the reverent act in Tallinn, including the Ambassador, Deputy Ambassador and Military and Air Attaché of the Czech Republic, have gathered at the Liiva Cemetery, where a memorial was erected to pay tribute to several hundreds of Jewish victims executed near the site in 1941 in anti-tank trenches. In his opening speech on the occasion of the Liiva Memorial inauguration , H. E. Mr Alar Karis, President of the Republic of Estonia, paid tribute to the Jews murdered during the Nazi occupation, alluding to the fact that many of them were Estonian citizens who fought in the Estonian war of independence. He called on the international community to prevent any such horrors as well as other crimes against humanity, attributing them mainly to totalitarian regimes. Minister of Education and Research, Mrs Liina Kersna, in her speech alluded to various places linked to the extermination of Jews in Estonia during WWII, such as Tallinn, Klooga, Kalevi-Liiva, Vaivara and others. Furthermore she called for the need to resist Holocaust denial and to remind especially the young generation of these atrocities. For this reason, the Ministry organizes winter school to teach students not only about Holocaust, but also about the Jews as a nation and their history, customs and culture.

Speeches were also delivered on behalf of the Tallinn diplomatic corps by its dean, H. E. Mr Raimonds Jansons, the Ambassador of Latvia, and by Mrs Alla Jakobson, Chairwoman of the Jewish Community in  Estonia. Written statement by H. E. Mrs Hagit Ben-Yaakov, non-resident Ambassador of the State of Israel to Estonia, was distributed to participants.  Prayer was served by Mr Shmuel Kot, Chief Rabbi in Estonia, ensued by wreaths and pebbles laying to the Memorial by participants.