place two years ago and the historic center of istanbul turkey has blamed it on the so-called islamic state. here in germany in a special session the german bundestag honor the victims of the holocaust the ceremony was led to by the part of the president of all functionally of the german president from. its key moment was an address by anita lascaux fish one of the last known surviving members of the women s orchestra of auschwitz the orchestra performed for high level nazi officials they also played at the concentration camp gates for prisoners as they went in and out for work. within the city as a political correspondent simon young son knew what some of the proceedings and we heard some very moving testimony from anita fish what does she have to say we spoke very movingly bringing some in the book to start to bury to the brink of tears and
the last known surviving members of the women s orchestra of auschwitz is set to speak now international holocaust remembrance day took place over the weekend and today the dog is paying its tribute and the president of the bundestag. will commence a ceremony with a speech there will also be musical interludes. and we will be bringing you that ceremony live as soon as it begins and peter as we re waiting for it to begin tell us a bit more about the significance of this commemoration and also about the speaker that we re waiting for. we ll survey this is a ceremony goes back about just over twenty years back to nine hundred ninety six when it was introduced at the behest of the then heads of the in german president who is a great friend of israel and the idea was that around the time of international hall the holocaust memorial day which as you said was on saturday this time around
controversial decision to recognize drusilla as the israeli capital. here in germany in a special session the german parliament the bundestag honored the victims of the holocaust today the ceremony was led by the parliament s president book on choice and german president voltaire steinmeyer its key moment was an address by a needle last year of all fish one of the last known surviving members of the women s orchestra of auschwitz the orchestra performed for high level nazi officials they also played at the concentration camp gates for prisoners as they went in. for work. were going to be you know the big table is the break before my politics sky kate what did you make of the speeches that we heard today whether it s your very strong speeches today festival we had from the president of the german. parliament and he used his speech very much as