What happened in Breendonk may never be forgotten. That is why the memorial, in cooperation with the National Confederation of Political Prisoners and Entitled Persons of Belgium, organises the annual commemoration of the end of the horror of the Nazi occupation at the Fortress Breendonk. The first ceremony, which was called a pilgrimage, took place on 24 September 1944. It brought together former prisoners and personalities, who paid tribute to all political and racial prisoners of the Second World War.
Since 2020, this ceremony has been organized every three years by the WHI, in other years paying tribute to the executed in Brussels and to the monument of the resistance in Liège. The next “pilgrimage” ceremony will thus take place on September 20, 2023.