commemorating

1. mark by some ceremony or observationExamples: "The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade"Synonyms: commemorate, mark

2. call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremonyExamples: "We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz"; "Remember the dead of the First World War"Synonyms: commemorate, remember

3. be or provide a memorial to a person or an eventExamples: "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead"Synonyms: commemorate, immortalise, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize, record