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(January 16, 2008 - Jerusalem) On November 1, 2005, the UN
General Assembly adopted a resolution designating January 27
as “International Day of Commemoration in memory of the
victims of the Holocaust.” Yad Vashem will be marking the
third annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day in a
variety of ways:
At Yad Vashem:
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24.1.08: Launch of Yad Vashem Website in Arabic and Panel
Discussion: A panel discussion, “The Holocaust and the
Arab World” with the participation of journalist Nazir
Majali, “Ashraq Alawsat”, Dr. Meir Litvak, Tel Aviv
University, and Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev, in the
presence of Minister of Science, Culture and Sport Raleb
Majadele, will be held to mark the launch of Yad Vashem’s new
Arabic website. The site, which will be launched on January
24, 2008 at www.yadvashem.org <http://www.yadvashem.org>,
will include the historical narrative of the Holocaust,
concepts from the Holocaust, academic articles, artifacts,
maps, photos, archival documents and an online video testimony
resource center all translated into Arabic, as well as a
special multimedia presentation of the Auschwitz Album,
stories of Righteous Among the Nations-including Muslims from
Turkey and Albania-and the movie We Were There, which
documents a joint visit of Arabs and Jews to Auschwitz.
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27-29.1.08: International Youth Congress: Young people
from more than 60 countries and five continents will gather at
Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies, for a
three-day Youth Congress, beginning on International Holocaust
Remembrance Day. Ranging in age from 16 to 20 - Christians,
Jews, Muslims and Buddhists - and speaking some 30 different
languages, participants will make the voice of the future
heard on shaping Holocaust remembrance and its importance to
coming generations. Countries as varying as Senegal, Morocco,
Australia, Thailand, Nepal, China, The Gambia, Canada, Russia,
Poland, France, Great Britain, Guatemala, Turkey, Israel and
the United States will be represented. The Congress, under the
patronage of UNESCO, will be devoted to the study of the
Holocaust and discussions of its universal significance.
Participants will study various Holocaust-related topics, tour
Yad Vashem and Jerusalem, participate in workshops, and meet
with Holocaust survivors. Special sessions will be held with
the participation of President Shimon Peres, Minister of
Education Prof. Yuli Tamir, Minister of Foreign Affairs Tzipi
Livni and the diplomatic corps. During the Congress,
participants will formulate an international youth treaty and
present it to Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev.
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“Signposts”-a special international project in which
graphic design students from Israel, Poland and England
designed a series of Holocaust-themed postcards that will be
exhibited at the International School and uploaded to the Yad
Vashem website
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22-23.1.08: European Commission-Israel Seminar on the Fight
Against Racism, Xenophobia, and Antisemitism: Held in
conjunction with the Israeli Foreign Ministry, this two day
seminar brings together 30 education experts from across
Europe for in depth discussions on how to combat racism,
xenophobia and antisemitism. The opening session will be
addressed by Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating
Antisemitism Isaac Herzog, and Vice President of the European
Commission responsible for Justice, Freedom and Security
Franco Frattini.
Yad Vashem Around the World:
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29.1.08: UN Headquarters in New York: Yad Vashem’s
exhibition “Besa: A Code of Honor-Muslim Albanians who Rescued
Jews During the Holocaust,” Photographer: Norman Gershman. The
exhibition presents portraits of Albanian Righteous Among the
Nations and their families. <http://www1.yadvashem.org/about_yad/what_new/gershman/temp_index_whats_new_Gershman.html>
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29.1.08: UN Headquarters, NY: Dr. Robert Rozett, Director
of the Yad Vashem Libraries and an honorary advisor to the new
permanent exhibition about the Holocaust to be displayed at
the UN building in NY, will lecture on the topic of rescue
during the Holocaust at a conference to take place at the UN.
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28.1.08: UNESCO Building, Paris: Yad Vashem’s exhibition
“Auschwitz: The Depth of the Abyss” will open in the presence
of UNECSO Director General Koïchiro Matsuura. The exhibit of
photos and sketches from Auschwitz was first curated by Yad
Vashem for display at the UN marking the 60th anniversary of
the liberation of Auschwitz, January 27, 2005. The opening
event will be held under the auspices of French President
Nicolas Sarkozy and the President of Israel Shimon Peres, and
will be attended by Israel’s Minister of Welfare Yitzhak
Herzog, Israel’s ambassador to UNESCO David Kornbluth, French
Minister of Education Xavier Darcos, President of La
Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah Baron David de
Rothschild, the Fondation’s honorary president Simone
Veil, Chairperson of the French Society for Yad Vashem Corinne
Champagner-Katz and Director of the Yad Vashem International
Relations Division’s French and Benelux Desk Miry Gross. The
exhibition comprises two kinds of rare testimony: enlarged
photographs from the Auschwitz Album showing the
arrival of Jews from Hungary to the death camp and the process
of selection they endured; and the testimony of the Jewish
artist Private Zinovii Tolkatchev, who arrived at the gates of
Auschwitz at its liberation by the Red Army and, using scraps
of paper and pencils, immortalized the terrible scenes he
witnessed there. <http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/album_auschwitz/home_auschwitz_album.html>
and <http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/tolkatchev/home_tolkatchev.html>
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Landsberg, Germany: Yad Vashem’s Exhibition “An Arduous
Road: Samuel Bak-60 Years of Creativity,” will open at the
municipal building of the city of Landsberg, Germany. The
exhibition, a retrospective of the work of artist and
Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak, will then be opened at the
parliament building of the District of Thuringia, in the city
of Erfurt, Germany. <http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/Bak/bak_splash.html>
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25.1.08, Massuah, Israel: Avner Shalev will address the
diplomatic corps at a special event at Massuah, the Institute
for the Study of the Holocaust, held in cooperation with Yad
Vashem.
Online at
www.yadvashem.org:
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Educational material in a number of languages,
guidelines for ceremonies, and more, including, for the first
time, 50 central topics from the Encyclopedia of the
Holocaust in Chinese
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