The Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in The Hague took part in the annual Yom Hasjoa memorial honoring the victims of the Holocaust. Together with the Embassies of the State of Israel, Germany, Italy, Austria and Canada, the Bulgarian Embassy joined the church service, the procession that followed and the laying of wreaths with white roses in front of the Jewish Children’s Monument at Rabbijn Maarssenplein in The Hague.

The Jewish Children’s Monument was built in 2006 in memory of the around 2000 Jewish children who lost their lives during the Second World War and in placed near The Hague city center on the playground of the former Jewish school near Bezemstraat. From 1942 Jewish children were no longer allowed to go to regular primary schools in The Hague. The children had to go to this particular school and in the period 1942 – 1943 many of them were deported. The monument consists of stainless steel chairs in a climbing frame, which symbolizes a staircase to heaven. On these chairs are engraved the names of 400 Jewish children from The Hague, who did not survive the war.