McKean , Rep. Michaelson Jenet Sen. Cooke , Sen. Arndt , Rep. Becker , Rep. Beckman , Rep. Bridges , Rep. Buck , Rep. Buckner , Rep. Carver , Rep. Catlin , Rep. Coleman , Rep. Danielson , Rep. Duran , Rep. Esgar , Rep. Everett , Rep. Exum , Rep. Foote , Rep. Garnett , Rep. Gray , Rep. Hamner , Rep. Hansen , Rep. Herod , Rep. Hooton , Rep. Humphrey , Rep.
Jackson , Rep. Kennedy , Rep. Kraft-Tharp , Rep. Landgraf , Rep. Lawrence , Rep. Lee , Rep. Leonard , Rep. Lewis , Rep. Liston , Rep. Lontine , Rep. Lundeen , Rep. McLachlan , Rep.
Melton , Rep. Neville , Rep. Pabon , Rep. Pettersen , Rep. Rankin , Rep. Ransom , Rep. Reyher , Rep. Roberts , Rep. Rosenthal , Rep. Saine , Rep. Sandridge , Rep. Sias , Rep. Singer , Rep. The learners received flyers with a timeline of the Holocaust and made notes in their Holocaust Remembrance notebooks. It was an insightful morning where the young people learnt more about the Holocaust and had the opportunity to share their thoughts and analysis of this watershed event in human history.
This movie further enlightened the students on the depth of the scars of the Holocaust atrocities on survivors. It was with keen interest and empathy that the children watched the movie. Discussions continued with rich exchanges between the panellists and participants. The event was attended by close to people, including the Ambassadors of Canada, Ecuador, France, Germany, Israel, Nicaragua, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland, as well as high level government official and dignitaries, including High Commissioner for Peace, Rodrigo Rivera and the Jewish diaspora in Colombia.
Produced by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the film examines the rise and consolidation of the power of Nazis in Germany, as well as its racist ideology, propaganda objectives and the persecution of Jewish people during the Second World War.
The screening sought to encourage reflection and debate among students, academia and UNIC staff on the timeliness and enduring validity of this subject at the global level. The ceremony was also attended by relatives of the Peruvian diplomat Jose Maria Barreto, who saved 48 Jews, including 4 children.
After one week in the park, the exhibition was moved to the Museum of Humanities and the Holocaust in Lima.
It will remain in the gardens of the museum for the next 3 months. School students will be invited to receive a guided tour and to produce their own paintings on the theme. The exhibition will be placed at the main exhibit hall of the Museum and will form part of the circuit for students when they visit The Butterfly Project: Remembering the Children of the Holocaust posters, as school in Peru begins in early March.
The opening ceremony will be attended by one of the winners, Peruvian graphic designer Angel Vega. Students also participated in a screening and discussion of the documentary Children of the Holocaust. The response of the audience was very positive. Paper butterflies painted by the girls of St. They were also the first group to participate in the Butterfly Project and their butterflies will be displayed in a future activity. UNIC is planning two more projects with students and will feature all the butterflies designed by the 25 girls.
When asked about their feelings after the film screening some of the comments were: "I feel sad for those children", "I can understand how it feels to have no parents" and "some of those children are just like us". UNIC Rio de Janeiro held several activities to promote the International Day of Commemoration in memory of victims of the Holocaust, which included special features text and video , an exhibition, an event and several interviews, in addition to translating and disseminating messages related to the Day.
He also recorded a message for an event held at the Jewish Museum in Rio. Brazilian designer Julia Cristofi, winner of the International Poster Competition, next to her poster for the contest. The special video was also disseminated on ONU Brazil web based platforms and sent to the Portuguese speaking countries and UN News, as it had a version with subtitles in English.
Photo: Sydney Jewish Museum. Brendan Nelson, director of the Australian War Memorial, as their keynote speaker. They plan to display the exhibit Keeping the Memory Alive at a later time. An event attended by about people was held at the Sydney Jewish Museum, in conjunction with the Australian Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants. Four Holocaust survivors gave a moving account of their lives and their survival, and also spoke about rebuilding their lives in Australia.
Guests included the diplomatic community, government officials, media and the civil society. Both the screening of the documentaries and the art exhibition were open to public and schools. On 26 January, UNIC Kathmandu, in collaboration with the Embassy of Israel, also conducted a half day long interactive programme with 30 high school students from different institutions in the UN House conference room by screening Children of the Holocaust and discussing the lessons learnt by Nepali youths utilising the teaching tools of The Butterfly Project.
In a traditional memorial ceremony, Yulia Rachisnky-Spivakov, Deputy Head of mission of Israel in Manila, led the lighting of six candles that represented the six million Jews who perished during the Holocaust. This was followed by the screening of the Children of the Holocaust film. Also exhibited at the same venue were the posters of the Keeping the Memory Alive exhibition. The briefing ignited their curiosity to learn the lessons from the past and interpret relevant themes for our contemporary times.
Experience Centres were created by students of seven schools, in New Delhi, presenting their understanding of the Holocaust through a wide variety of historical, thematic and art exhibitions. This exhibit highlighted stories of 9 diplomats from different countries who ran rescue operations and went against orders to save Jews during the Holocaust.
Students from seven schools presented their understanding of the Holocaust through a wide variety of historical, thematic and art exhibitions.
The lawns of the UN House were converted into a concentration camp like setting, where schools set up experience centres to lead guests through the various struggles of living under persecution. In the evening of 30 January, over guests from the diplomatic community, academia and media attended the ceremony to show solidarity to the cause. The screening was followed by an interaction wherein diplomats from collaborating embassies answered questions from the student audience.
The screening was organized in collaboration with the Polish Institute. Janos Cegledy, a Holocaust survivor, originally from Hungary, discussed the Holocaust with Japanese high school students. U Naing Ngan Lin, was the guest of honour. Prize-winning posters from the International Design Student Poster Competition, a joint project of Yad Vashem and the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme, endorsed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, were prominently displayed in the lobby of the hall.
The Embassy of Israel also displayed photos of the Holocaust. Along with the documentary, participants also had a chance to see the exhibit The Butterfly Project: Remembering the Children of the Holocaust , also translated into Azeri.
Photo: UNO Baku. The latter also hosted the exhibition titled Keeping the Memory Alive , which featured the 12 best posters on the Holocaust by designers and students of design from different countries. A web story on the Day was also posted on their website and social media platforms. About people attended the event. Survivor Eva Schloss keeps the memory alive, speaking with the youth from local schools in Geneva.
The ceremony also featured a musical performance by young violinists Anne Luisa Kramb and Dmitry Smirnov, former winners of the Menuhin Competition, as well as Gordon Back, pianist and artistic director of the Menuhin Competition.
The students were mesmerized by Ms. The exhibition - about Anne Frank from her birth in up to her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in - included a replica of her diary and a scale model of the hiding place.
An official inauguration was held on 29 January in the presence of more than participants, amongst them several dignitaries and some students from international schools. The exhibition was linked to an educational programme of Anne Frank House for which some 15 students from Geneva-based schools received a two-day training before providing guided tours to the diplomatic corps and fellow students. The exhibition was displayed until 9 February. On the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, the United Nations Office in Minsk held a panel discussion and organized two exhibits: The Butterfly Project: Remembering the Children of the Holocaust in Russian, which was produced by the UNO; and an exhibit of posters dedicated to the Holocaust in Belarus.
As a follow-up to the poster competition, UNIC Moscow conducted a half-day workshop for the Russia-based first round winners, which included a review of their artwork by a prominent Russian designer and university lecturer, and Ilya Altman of Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Centre.
Photo: Victory Museum in Moscow. UNIC Moscow was also involved in the planning of a documentary exhibition at the UN Headquarters in commemoration of the tragedy and liberation of inmates of the Nazi camps by the Red Army. He also recorded an interview for the media section of the Victory Museum, which is to be included in a story to be later aired on Ren-TV, a Russian federal TV channel. The exhibit was dedicated to the memory of those diplomats and civil servants from various countries who had showed exceptional heroism and unparalleled courage in saving the lives of Jews during the Second World War.
The ceremony brought together an unprecedented number of representatives of the Moscow-based diplomatic corps. The UNIC representative was among those guests who participated in a candle-lighting ceremony following an official segment, which included welcoming remarks and formal addresses.
The photographs and documents displayed at the exhibit were supplemented with some archival materials provided by the Foreign Ministry of Russia and a number of artefacts on loan from the Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Centre. On 30 January, a solemn ceremony commemorating the victims of the Holocaust was held in Tashkent. The event continued with a photo exhibition titled Beyond duty , which was devoted to the diplomats from 21 countries, which in spite of personal danger and in contravention of instructions from their governments saved Jews during the Second World War and later were recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem - the World Holocaust Remembrance Center.
Representatives of Uzbek governmental bodies, heads of diplomatic missions, international organizations, Jewish community, media and more than students attended the event.
Photo: UNO Tbilisi. The film screening, attended by more than people, was followed by a panel discussion with film director Yonatan Nir, H. The Holocaust Memorial Centre in Budapest marked the Day with a commemorative ceremony and the opening of the poster exhibition Keeping the Memory Alive on 26 January, attended by more than people.
The exhibition was on display until March. The Holocaust Memorial Centre also screened the documentary Children of the Holocaust , giving an opportunity for approximately students to watch the film. Students of the high school Business Academy in the town of Levice, Southern Slovakia, organized a workshop for students and the general public in observance of the Day. The students explained the history of the Holocaust, screened the movie On the edge , depicting the story of two Slovaks, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, who escaped from Auschwitz, and launched the exhibition of International Design Posters posters Keeping the Memory Alive.
Prepared by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the exhibition consisted of posters of Nazi propaganda campaigns and their legacy. The exhibition of posters was on display at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana until 9 February The primary school Narnia in Pezinok, Western Slovakia, held a series of activities commemorating the Day in March These activities included the presentation Ordinary things , a screening of the documentary Children of the Holocaust and the poster exhibition The Butterfly Project: Remembering the Children of the Holocaust , as well as the Holocaust Poster Set on Rescue: Traits that Transcend.
In addition, all teachers visiting the UN in Vienna with a class estimate: 2, per year continued to receive a printed guide to multi-lingual on-line teaching resources on the Holocaust.
Skip to main content. UNIC Nairobi, Kenya A memorial ceremony was organized in Nairobi, Kenya, with more than in attendance mainly university students from more than 25 local universities, NGOs, UN Staff and members of the diplomatic corps including government officials from the host country. Photo: UNIC Nairobi In the second phase of the event students were invited to a film screening of a short video offered by the Embassy of Israel in which nine diplomats were featured on how they defied orders from their capital and saved thousands of lives.
Photo: UNIC Pretoria This was followed by the viewing of an exhibition on the Holocaust during which they also participated in an interactive session which chronicled the Holocaust and its atrocities and the impact it had on various races including Jews of African descent from West Africa.
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