This past November, the UN's General Assembly voted to establish Jan. 27 as an annual commemoration day for the six million Jews and countless other victims murdered in the Nazi Holocaust during World War II. The new "International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust" is meant to be a symbol against genocide for future generations.
The chosen date, Jan. 27, is the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration/extermination camps of Auschwitz by Allied Russian forces in 1945.
Israel's Cabinet will convene in Jerusalem at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial on Thursday, January 26. The ministers will hear a review of anti-Semitism in the world, and will discuss the renovation of the Jewish exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. The Chairman of the Directorate of Yad Vashem will participate in the meeting, and will accompany government ministers on a special tour of the new Holocaust History Museum.
On the same day, Yad Vashem, which contains the world’s largest repository of information on the Holocaust, will open a new exhibition, “Montparnasse D?port?.” It presents the artwork and life stories of Jewish artists from Paris, most of whom were murdered in the concentration camps. Approximately 170 works are displayed in the exhibition, together with photographs and original documents.
At UN Headquarters in New York, the day will be marked with a special event. Among those who will address the General Assembly will be Holocaust survivor, author and lecturer Gerda Klein.
Another commemoration of the day will be marked in Houston, Texas, with the publication of a new book by eight Houston-area Holocaust survivors. The book, entitled, "The Album: Shadows of Memory," was sponsored by Houston's Holocaust Museum. The project brought eight Holocaust survivors together to work for ten months with a creative writing instructor to learn how to explore and document some of the innermost feelings associated with their Holocaust experiences.
The chosen date, Jan. 27, is the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration/extermination camps of Auschwitz by Allied Russian forces in 1945.
Israel's Cabinet will convene in Jerusalem at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial on Thursday, January 26. The ministers will hear a review of anti-Semitism in the world, and will discuss the renovation of the Jewish exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. The Chairman of the Directorate of Yad Vashem will participate in the meeting, and will accompany government ministers on a special tour of the new Holocaust History Museum.
On the same day, Yad Vashem, which contains the world’s largest repository of information on the Holocaust, will open a new exhibition, “Montparnasse D?port?.” It presents the artwork and life stories of Jewish artists from Paris, most of whom were murdered in the concentration camps. Approximately 170 works are displayed in the exhibition, together with photographs and original documents.
At UN Headquarters in New York, the day will be marked with a special event. Among those who will address the General Assembly will be Holocaust survivor, author and lecturer Gerda Klein.
Another commemoration of the day will be marked in Houston, Texas, with the publication of a new book by eight Houston-area Holocaust survivors. The book, entitled, "The Album: Shadows of Memory," was sponsored by Houston's Holocaust Museum. The project brought eight Holocaust survivors together to work for ten months with a creative writing instructor to learn how to explore and document some of the innermost feelings associated with their Holocaust experiences.