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(January 17, 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 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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25.1.08, Germany: Yad
Vashem’s Exhibition “An Arduous Road: Samuel Bak-60 Years of
Creativity,” will open at the parliament building of the
State of Thuringen, in the city of Erfurt, Germany, with the
participation of Thuringen Prime Minister Dieter Althaus and
President of the Parliament Prof. Dr. Dagmar Schipanski,
Israel Ambassador to Germany Avi Primor, and members of
Parliament. http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/Bak/bak_splash.html.
On January 15, Yad Vashem’s “Private Tolkatchev at the Gates
of Hell” exhibit opened in the Parliament of the State of
Baden-Wittenberg in Stuttgart in the presence of the
President of the Parliament, and Hildegard Müller, State
Minister at the Chancellor’s Office and Chairperson of the
German Friends of Yad Vashem, Members of Parliament and
others. <http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/tolkatchev/home_tolkatchev.html>
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28.1.08, Liechtenstein:
Commemoration event with the Head of Government and
Ministers, held in partnership with Friends of Yad Vashem in
Liechtenstein.
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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.
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21.1.08, Spain: Event
marking publication of the Auschwitz Album in
Spanish, with participation of Isaac Querub, President of
Spanish Friends of Yad Vashem, Jon Juaristi, former chairman
of the National Library and Angel Vazquez, director general
of Casa Sefarad.
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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