International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust

                           2012 Calendar

of United Nations Holocaust Remembrance 
 

Internacionalni dan sjećanja na žrtve Holokausta biti će posvećen temi " Djeca i Holokaust",  na sjećanje na milijun i pol židovske djece koja su stradala u Holokaustu.
Neka su djeca uspjela preživjeti sakrivajući se , druga su bježala na sigurna mjesta prije nego što je bilo prekasno, dok je bilo mnogo onih koji su poslani u gasne komore odmah nakon što su stigli u logore smrti.

Izabrana tema služi da bi se istaknule posljedice masovnog nasilja nad djecom.

U prilogu je poziv na Dan sjećanja na Holokaust u Ujedinjenim nacijama i na mngobrojna predavanja, koncerte, izložbe, susrete. 

We invite you to attend the United Nations' annual observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust 

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Date:Friday, 27 January 2012

The solemn ceremony on the theme "Children and the Holocaust" will feature a video message remarks by UN Secretary-General, and statements by the President of the General Assembly and the Permanent Representatives of Israel and the Dominican Republic to the United Nations.

The UN Holocaust Programme's new study guide for children will also be launched.

Keynote remarks will be made by Professor Robert Krell (Canada), a Child Survivor  and a psychiatrist.

Students will perform songs from the musical theatre production "Sosua: Dare to Dance Together", which is based on the true story of the emigration of Jewish refugees to the Dominican Republic. 


Monday, January 23, 2012 10:00 a.m.

Launch of "IWitness"with USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education . "IWitness" is a new online application which provides a searchable collection of video testimonies of Holocaust survivors, along with educational tools and supporting resources for students.


Ten classes from secondary schools in the New York metropolitan area will be invited to create a research project using "IWitness".
The launch will feature student presentations of their projects using "IWitness" and a Q&A with Roman Kent, a Holocaust Survivor, whose testimony is in this collection. 

 
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 6:00 p.m.
  
Exhibit Opening of "The Face of the Ghetto: Pictures by Jewish Photographers from the Lodz Ghetto 1940-1944" 
This exhibition presents new photographs of community life in the Lodz Ghetto, taken by the Jewish inhabitants.

The exhibition is curated by the Topography of Terror Foundation, Berlin in cooperation with the National Archives in Lodz (Poland).

While researching in the National Archives in Lodz, historian Dr.Ingo Loose and curator  Dr. Thomas Lutz came across 27 photo albums. Inside were about 12,000 contact prints in small format, sorted thematically and taken by Jewish photographers at the request of the ghetto's Jewish Council.

This collection of images - which is hardly known, even among experts in the field - shows a decisive step in the persecution of Jews in the Lizmannstadt Ghetto. Through this exhibition, these photographs are accessible to the public for the very first time. 
 
 
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 6:30 p.m.

Film Screening and Panel Discussion  of  "The Last Flight of Petr Ginz" 

The UN Holocaust Programme will screen a new animateddocumentary film on the life and artwork of Petr Ginz, a Jewish boy from Prague who perished in the Holocaust at the age of 16, after spending two years in Terezin. He was a brilliant child who wrote a diary, four novels and created 200 illustrations and paintings during his short life.

The screening will be held in partnership with the Documentary Film Program at Wake Forest University, and the Documentary Institute at the University of Florida.

A panel discussion with the filmmakers and Mr. Leo Lowy, a Holocaust Survivor, will follow.

The UN Holocaust Programme will also launch a 32-page study guide that will serve as a companion to this documentary. The publication features Petr's art and writings, and provides historical context for the film and information about the United Nations, human rights and Holocaust remembrance activities. The publication will be available online in all official United Nations languages. 
 
Thursday, January 26, 2012 6:00 p.m.
  
 
Opening of the Exhibitions "A Monument of Good Deeds: Dreams and Hopes of Children  During the Holocaust,"
and "The Holocaust - Keeping the Memory Alive"
  
The exhibition on children is curated by Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, and features the stories of 13 children during the Holocaust. Through their portraits, toys and artwork, visitors to this exhibition will learn how these children lived their daily lives as the war was raging around them.


A second exhibit titled "The Holocaust - Keeping the Memory Alive" will feature 16 entries of the Design Student Poster Contest.
The exhibition is supported by the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (ITF) and held in partnership with Yad Vashem, le Mémorial de la Shoah, the European Shoah Legacy Institute and the UN Holocaust Programme. The top 16 entries will be presented.  
 

 Thursday, 26 January 2012

 Side-event organized by B'nai B'rith International
 Zachor: Holocaust Memory Across Generation
 
B'nai B'rith International will hold a special breakfast programme on the Shoah and its legacy across the generations.

Ambassador Brusso von Alvensleben, Consul General of Germany, and Allan J. Jacobs, President of B'nai B'rith International, will make remarks during the event.