[Cz-L] Holocaust Remembrance Schedule at UN

List member Ruth Glasberg Gold will speak at the opening ceremony at
the U.N. General Assembly Hall on 27 January 2009. Details below:

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From: Einat Temkin <temkin_at_un.org>
To: Holocaustremembrance <holocaustremembrance_at_un.org>
Cc: Einat Temkin <temkin_at_un.org>
Subject: International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims
of the Holocaust 2009
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:40:01 +0000


Dear friends and colleagues,

We invite you to take part in the United Nations' annual observance of
the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the
Holocaust from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on 27 January 2009 in the
General Assembly Hall in New York.

This year, the theme of the memorial ceremony will be “An Authentic
Basis for Hope: Holocaust Remembrance and Education” and the keynote
speaker will be Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, Chairman of the Yad Vashem
Council. Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public
Information Kiyo Akasaka will open the event, which will include a
message from United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Statements
will be made by H.E. Mr. Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, President of the
63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, and H.E.
Ambassador Gabriela Shalev, Permanent Representative of Israel to the
United Nations. Ruth Glasberg Gold, a survivor of the Transnistria
camps (in the former USSR) and WWII veteran Leonid Rosenberg,
liberator of a concentration camp, will share their personal stories.
The ceremony will also include musical performances by Elisha Abas
(piano) and Yoon Kwon (violin).

The ceremony is open to the general public. To register, please send
your name, affiliation, and telephone number by email to
holocaustremembrance_at_un.org or by fax at (212) 963-0536 before 22
January 2009.

Other events in observance of the International Day of Commemoration
in memory of the Victims of the Holocaust are:

Monday 26 January
1:15 p.m. Exhibition on the Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Roma
and Sinti, sponsored by the Permanent Mission of the Hungary to the
United Nations. Invitation only.
Venue: 227 E. 52nd Street

USHMM exhibition “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race”. This
exhibition shows how the Nazi regime, with the support of doctors and
scientists, aimed to change the genetic makeup of the population
through measures known as "racial hygiene" or "eugenics". The
categories of persons and groups regarded as biologically threatening
to the health of the nation were expanded to include Jews, Roma, the
disabled and other minorities. These policies resulted in forced
sterilization and murder, and ultimately in the Holocaust. Open to
public.
Venue: UN Public Lobby at visitors' entrance 1st Ave. and 46 Street

Tuesday 27 January
1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. B'nai B'rith International panel discussion
“The Holocaust - The Rescued and the Rescuers”,
Kurt and Margarete Goldberger, survivors; Rachel Ostreicher Bernheim,
Chair/CEO of the Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States; Paul
Shapiro, Director of the Centre for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Register at rsvpun_at_bnaibrith.org or
telephone 212-557-0019.
Venue: United Nations Conference Room 5

5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. “Irena’s Vow”, a non-fictional play, with Ms.
Tovah Feldshuh. It is the story of a Polish Catholic woman who risks
her life to protect the lives of twelve Jewish refugees whom she
secretly took under her care while working as head housekeeper for a
prominent German major. The reading is followed by a reception.
Register with Ms. Millie Meyers, telephone 212 415-4085 or e-mail
meyersm_at_state.gov. Sponsored by the Permanent Missions of the United
States and Poland to the United Nations.
Venue: Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium

Wednesday 28 January
1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Holocaust Survivors’ Memoirs Project book
signing
The project is an initiative of Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, who
is also a United Nations Messenger of Peace, and Menachem Rosensaft,
Chairman of the Project's Editorial Board who is also the Founding
Chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust
Survivors. Yad Vashem joined the project in 2004, which has published
eleven books with 17 survivors' memoirs. Open to public.
Venue: UN Bookshop (1st basement, visitors’ entrance).

Thursday 29 January
9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. DPI-NGO briefing on the experience of Jews in
Greece during the Holocaust. NGO Relations will respond with a formal
invitation and instructions with regards to obtaining passes
approximately two weeks before the event. Non-UN grounds pass holders
please register at HU2_at_un.org.
Venue: Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium

6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Film screening “Forgiving Doctor Mengele”, with
statement by Ms. Eva Kor, who makes an inspirational visit to Germany,
Israel and Auschwitz to come to terms with her experience. Having
finally liberated herself from her feelings of rage and victimhood,
she becomes a tireless advocate of this new way of healing - but not
everyone is ready to forgive the unforgivable. Register at:
holocaustremembrance_at_un.org
Venue: Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium

For full information, please visit our website
http://www.un.org/holocaustremembrance . We hope you can join us for
these important and memorable events.

Thank you and all the best,
Kimberly Mann, Manager
The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme

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