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pos: International Holocaust Remembrance Day International Holocaust Remembrance Day International Holocaust Remembrance Day, is an international memorial day on 27 January commemorating the tragedy of the Holocaust that occurred during the Second World War. It commemorates the genocide that resulted in the death of an estimated 6 million Jewish people, 5 million Slavs, 3 million ethnic Poles, 200,000 Romani people, 250,000 mentally and physically disabled people, and 9,000 homosexual men by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. It was designated by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 60/7 on 1 November 2005 during the 42nd plenary session. The resolution came after a special session was

pos: International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2001 in the UK. The Holocaust Remembrance Day is also a national event in the United Kingdom and in Italy. Resolution 60/7 establishing 27 January as International Holocaust Remembrance Day urges every member nation of the U.N. to honor the memory of Holocaust victims, and encourages the development of educational programs about Holocaust history to help prevent future acts of genocide. It rejects any denial of the Holocaust as an event and condemns all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief. It also calls for actively preserving the

pos: Deborah Lipstadt Israel". On a visit to London in September 2014, Lipstadt criticized the Israeli government and said that the government had "cheapened" the memory of the Holocaust by using it to justify war. She has also rejected the view that Israeli military actions during the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict constituted a genocide on the same level as the Holocaust. Lipstadt returned to the theme of soft-core Holocaust denial in "The Atlantic" when responding to the Trump administration's statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2017 which was condemned for the absence of a specific mention of Jews, as the principal victims

pos: Drobytsky Yar the 16,000 victims were etched on an underground memorial wall, illuminated by candlelight, in a room called "Room of Tragedy". On 27 January 2002 a new exposition in the Kharkiv City Holocaust Museum was officially opened. The exposition was created in December 2001, when Kharkiv commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Drobytsky Yar tragedy. Excursions to the ravine had already been held before, but the official opening was on 27 January, the anniversary of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp's 1945 liberation (later designated International Holocaust Remembrance Day). Six candles were lit in memory of the six million Jews who died in

pos: Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust during the war on American soil — liberated the Dachau concentration camp and a number of its satellite camps, as well as rescuing hundreds of Jewish-ethnicity camp inmates driven southwards from Dachau by the Nazis on a death march only days later. In 2005, the United Nations established a different date for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27 — the day in 1945 when the Soviet Red Army liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp — but the "Yom HaShoah" date of Nisan 27 on the Hebrew calendar continues as the date for the determination of the 8-day DRVH commemoration. This date

pos: Yom HaShoah new version consists of six Yellow Candles provided for communal observances and ceremonies. More recently Conservative rabbis and lay leaders in the US, Israel and Canada collaborated to write "Megillat Hashoah" (The Holocaust Scroll). It contains personal recollections of Holocaust survivors. A responsum was written by Rabbi David Golinkin expressing the view that not only is it legitimate for the modern Jewish community to write a new scroll of mourning, it was also incumbent to do so. Reform Jewish congregations have tended to commemorate the memory of the Holocaust either on International Holocaust Remembrance Day or on Yom HaShoah. These

pos: Jacob Mühlrad a master's degree from the Royal College of Music in London. In 2016 Mühlrad made his Carnegie Hall debut with his work ”Pan”, inspired by the god in Greek mythology with the same name. Mühlrad has produced work for Berwaldhallen, the Swedish Radio Choir, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. As the grandchild of a Holocaust survivor he was awarded a scholarship from Micael Bindefeld's Foundation in memory of the Holocaust ($33 000) on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2017. The scholarship was intended to fund the production for a choir piece with the

pos: World Holocaust Forum 25, 2011 at the European Parliament in Brussels on the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day there took place a commemoration meeting devoted to the memory of the Holocaust. It was timed to the 66th anniversary of the liberation of concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Soviet Army. Among principal organizers of the event were the European Jewish Congress, the European Jewish Community Center, the European Coalition for Israel, as well as the European Parliament and the Information and Diaspora Ministry of Israel. The President of the European Jewish Congress Moshe Kantor, the President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek,

pos: International Holocaust Remembrance Day national memorial day in remembrance of the Holocaust, also known as Yom HaShoah, which is held on the 27th of Nisan. However, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day is also held in Israel. Government officials, diplomats and ambassadors visit Yad Vashem and there are ceremonies held throughout the country. Every year, the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs presents the annual report on anti-Semitism before the Israeli government, as part of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The report reviews the main trends and incidents of the last year, in terms of anti-Semitism and combating anti-Semitism. International Holocaust Remembrance Day International Holocaust Remembrance Day, is

pos: European Jewish Congress 70 years since die Kristallnacht, has been held in Krakow, Poland. On 25 January 2011 at the European Parliament in Brussels on the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day there took place a commemoration meeting devoted to the memory of the Holocaust. It was timed to the 66th anniversary of the liberation of concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Soviet Army. The European Jewish Congress was one of the principal organizers of this event. Another important issue on the EJC's agenda is preventing nuclear terrorism. The EJC was a co-organiser of the International Conference on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe, which took

pos: Documentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma commemorates the Roma and Sinti Genocide, 12 countries (35 per cent) responded that the victims of the Roma and Sinti genocide are commemorated on 27 January, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Seven countries indicated that victims are commemorated on 2 August, the day around 23,000 Sinti and Roma were rounded up and removed by the SS and taken to Auschwitz. Six countries (18 per cent) indicated other varying commemoration dates. Fourteen participating States (41 per cent) that responded to the ODIHR questionnaire provided information on memorial sites that have been designated by the government. One respondent referred to the Central Council

pos: CBS Cares PSAs honoring American military veterans. Another set of PSAs honors the victims of the Nazi Holocaust. These run annually on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. CBS Cares has marked the holiday season with special messages on important health issues. This humorous campaign promoted giving gifts of prostate exams and pap smears to loved ones. It was ranked 17th by the TV Guide Channel on its 2010 show, "25 Most Hilarious Holiday TV Moments". When major natural disasters have struck, CBS Cares has often partnered with the American Red Cross to develop multimedia PSAs featuring numerous CBS talent to raise funds for

neg: United Nations Holocaust Memorial United Nations Holocaust Memorial On January 27, 2005 the United Nations General Assembly held a special session in remembrance of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on the same day of 1945. This is the first time that the international organization made a remembrance of victims of the Holocaust as a way to prevent futures genocides. Also, the General Assembly declared the day 27 of January as the "International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust". On 27 January 2011 they paid tribute to the suffering of women. And in 2012 to the Child holocaust victims, with

neg: The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme between the underlying causes of genocide, the lessons to be learned from the Holocaust and the promotion of human rights and democratic values today. The International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust is observed each year on 27 January in the General Assembly Hall at United Nations Headquarters in New York City with a memorial ceremony on the theme "Remembrance and Beyond", which serves to highlight and connect the two main elements of the Programme – remembering the victims of the Holocaust and helping to prevent future acts of genocide. The International Day is also

neg: Aftermath of the Holocaust the restoration of property increased, an increase in the memories for Holocaust survivors was found to be a direct correlation. The connection between property and memory proved to be a key in unlocking more details about the Holocaust, further adding to this collective European memory, and thereby increasing and furthering the restitution movement. The United Nations General Assembly voted on November 1, 2005, to designate January 27 as the "International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust." January 27, 1945, is the day that the former Nazi concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated. The

neg: International Holocaust Remembrance Day other with educating future generations of its horrors. The International Day in memory of the victims of the Holocaust is thus a day on which we must reassert our commitment to human rights. [...] We must also go beyond remembrance, and make sure that new generations know this history. We must apply the lessons of the Holocaust to today’s world. And we must do our utmost so that all peoples may enjoy the protection and rights for which the United Nations stands. In 2006, 2007 and 2008, Holocaust Remembrance Weeks were organized by The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach

neg: International Holocaust Remembrance Day On 29 January, the second annual observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust was held in the General Assembly Hall at United Nations Headquarters. Shasta Tharp, former Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, introduced a programme that began with a video message from Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Statements were then made by Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa, president of the sixty-first session of the General Assembly, and Ambassador Dan Gillerman, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations. The keynote "Remembrance and Beyond" address was given by Madame Simone Veil, a Holocaust survivor,

neg: The Holocaust Museum in Odessa of ghettos and concentration camps. By the 75th anniversary of the occupation of Odessa during the second world war, the Holocaust museum presented the exhibition "Documents of the Romanian occupation of Odessa 1941–1944 from the state archives of Odessa region". In January 2012, the international day of commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust saw the opening of an exhibition of photographs entitled "Holocaust in granite". The photographs presented unfailingly reveal the tragedy of the Holocaust. The exhibition is devoted to the tragic fate of the Jews of Odessa, Bessarabia and Bukovina, destroyed by the Romanian occupiers in

neg: The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme and training programmes, a film series, book signings, a permanent exhibit at United Nations Headquarters in New York City, and the annual worldwide observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. The Programme has worked closely with Holocaust survivors to ensure that their stories are heard and heeded as a warning of the consequences of anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination. It continues to combat Holocaust denial, also called for in General Assembly resolution 61/255. In all of its activities, with students around the world in particular, the Holocaust Programme draws essential links

neg: The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme of temporary exhibitions on Holocaust-related topics every year during the week of 27 January, the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. In 2011, the Holocaust Programme helped to organize two exhibitions: The Memories Live On, which features the drawings of Auschwitz made by an unknown prisoner of the concentration and death camp and focuses on the legacy of the survivors to young people; and Hélène Berr, A Stolen Life, which presents the persecution of Jews in Occupied France during World War II through the journal by this young woman who died in Bergen-Belsen concentration

neg: Monument to the Memory of Children - Victims of the Holocaust Monument to the Memory of Children - Victims of the Holocaust Monument to the Memory of Children - Victims of the Holocaust - a monument located in the Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street in Warsaw, commemorating children - victims of the Holocaust. The monument was founded by Jacek Eisner. Its form refers to the high wall of the ghetto with barbed wire, to which plates, arranged in the shape of a menorah, lead. Ruins of the ghetto were placed at the bottom of the monument, on the surface of which are photographs of Jewish children who died during World War

neg: National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust The ceremony was attended by President Traian Băsescu, Foreign Minister Affairs Minister Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu, Culture Minister Adrian Iorgulescu, as well as representatives of the Romanian and international Jewish community. A commemoration march also took place through Bucharest in order to remember the Romani victims of the Holocaust and to demand greater recognition by the government of Romani Holocaust victims. National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust The National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust ("Ziua Naţională de Comemorare a Holocaustului" in Romanian) is a national event held on October 9 in Romania. It is dedicated to the remembrance of the victims

neg: Holocaust memorial landscapes in Germany Holocaust memorial landscapes in Germany Holocaust memorial landscapes in Germany encompass a large group of commemorative works dealing with the outdoor built environment. Most often these memorials attempt to keep the memory of Holocaust victims alive through dissemination of this memory to the public. Since the end of World War II, there has been a question as to how one can adequately commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. For a time, it was often regarded with a sense of amnesia until memorialization efforts emerged. Holocaust memorials in Germany face the difficulty of commemorating the victims of a crime it has

neg: Jona Laks Jona Laks Jona Laks (born 1930) is a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor who was subject to human experimentation by Josef Mengele at the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the war she founded and served as chairwoman of the Organization of the Mengele Twins. In January 2015 she addressed the United Nations General Assembly at its International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust Memorial Ceremony. She has been featured in several documentary films. Jona was nine years old when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. Jona and her family, residents of Łódź, were incarcerated in the

neg: Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust goal not only for military participation, but for the annual National Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, as a whole: Our challenge today is to insist that time will not become the Nazis' friend, that time will not fade our sense of specificity, the uniqueness of the Holocaust, that time will not lead us to make the Holocaust into an abstraction. Our challenge today is to remember the Holocaust, for if we remember we will, as our soldiers did, look its evil in the face... For memory is our duty to the past, and memory is our

neg: Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center Moscow. Since the late nineties, also young Austrians fulfill their compulsory paid community service in the Center. This was, at first, a cooperation with "Verein GEDENKDIENST", but since 2010, the cooperation only involves volunteers of the Austrian Service Abroad. All three organizations pursue the goal of preserving the memory of the victims of National socialism also among the younger generations. Moreover, the Holocaust Center is supported by numerous German, English, Israeli and other international foundations. Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center The Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center was founded in 1992 in Moscow and has since then been working

neg: Moment of silence of members of the armed forces and of civilians in times of war. In Israel, moments of silence are held in memory of the victims of the Holocaust and on Jewish holidays in memory of fallen soldiers and terrorist victims. The moment of silence are marked as a time to live peacefully with other countries. Moments of silence are often observed prior to sports matches with reasons for silences range from national and international tragedies, to the death of individuals connected to the sport or specific clubs. The first recorded instance of an official moment of silence dedicated to a

neg: Jona Laks on a death march to the Ravensbrück concentration camp; they were later incarcerated in nearby Malchow. They were liberated near Leipzig on May 8, 1945. Jona and Miriam returned to Łódź, but following the 1946 Kielce pogrom they were taken to London and cared for by Jewish families. In 1948 Jona immigrated alone to Palestine. She eventually resided in Tel Aviv with her husband. Laks founded and serves as chairwoman of the Organization of the Mengele Twins. She addressed the United Nations General Assembly on the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, January 28,

neg: Ehud Barak 2011, Labor Party leader Barak formed a breakaway party, Independence, which enabled him to maintain his loyal Labor's MK faction within Netanyahu's government, and prevented the departure of Labor party as a whole from Netanyahu's coalition-government. Labor previously threatened to force Barak to do so. After Barak's move, Netanyahu was able to maintain a majority of 66 MK (out of 120 in the Knesset), previously having 74 MKs within his majority coalition. In February 2011, Barak attended a ceremony at the UN for the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Barak told the UN

neg: International Holocaust Remembrance Day Holocaust sites that served as Nazi death camps, concentration camps, forced labor camps and prisons, as well as for establishing a U.N. programme of outreach and mobilization of society for Holocaust remembrance and education. Resolution 60/7 and the International Holocaust Day was an initiative of the State of Israel. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel, Silvan Shalom, was the head of the delegation of Israel to the United Nations. The essence of the text lies in its twofold approach: one that deals with the memory and remembrance of those who were massacred during the Holocaust, and the

neg: Yad Vashem educators both in Israel and throughout the world; develops age-appropriate study programs, curricula, and educational materials for Israeli and foreign schools in order to teach students of all ages about the Holocaust; holds exhibitions about the Holocaust; collects the names of Holocaust victims; collects photos, documents, and personal artifacts; and collects Pages of Testimony memorializing victims of the Holocaust. Yad Vashem seeks to preserve the memory and names of the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, and the numerous Jewish communities destroyed during that time. It holds ceremonies of remembrance and commemoration; supports Holocaust research projects; develops and coordinates

neg: Monument to the Memory of Children - Victims of the Holocaust II. There is a plaque underneath it written in three languages: Polish, Hebrew and English, with the following content: "To the memory of one million Jewish children murdered by German barbarians 1939-1945". The photographs include a picture of a girl in checkerd clothes and a hat depicting Lusia, the daughter of Chaskiel Bronstein, the owner of the "Fotografika" photography studio in Tarnów, mentioned by Paweł Huelle in a short story "Mercedes Benz". The monument also contains: a symbolic grave of the Szteinman family, murdered during the Holocaust, and two commemorative plaques: Monument to the Memory of Children - Victims of

neg: ILAI Fund Holocaust remembrance. In 2018, the ILAI Fund took part in the Wreath-Laying Ceremony during Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem together with the Prime Minister of Israel and other notable public figures as well as many Holocaust survivors. ILAI Fund representatives laid down a wreath in the memory of around 300,000 often forgotten disabled and special needs victims of the Nazi regime that were persecuted and murdered as a part of a program the Nazis dubbed T-4. The fund also assists children in foster homes and provides them with clothing, books, gifts, bed sheets, towels, toys and more.

neg: International Holocaust Remembrance Day General for Communications and Public Information Shashi Tharoor; a videotaped message by former Secretary-General Kofi Annan; statements by the permanent representatives of Israel and Brazil to the United Nations, and by Gerda Weissmann Klein, holocaust survivor, author and historian Gerda and Kurt Klein Foundation; narration of photographs of Holocaust victims memorialized on "Pages of Testimony" in the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem; as well as a performance by The Zamir Chorale of Boston; and a lecture by Professor Yehuda Bauer, academic advisor to Yad Vashem, and the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research.

neg: Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust The Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust (DRVH) is an annual 8-day period designated by the United States Congress for civic commemorations and special educational programs that help citizens remember and draw lessons from the Holocaust. The annual DRVH period normally begins on the Sunday before the Jewish observance of "Yom HaShoah", Holocaust Memorial Day, and continues through the following Sunday, usually in April or May. A National Civic Commemoration is held in Washington, D.C., with state, city, and local ceremonies and programs held in most of the

neg: Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust duty to the future. On April 24, 2017, President Donald Trump issued . Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust The Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust (DRVH) is an annual 8-day period designated by the United States Congress for civic commemorations and special educational programs that help citizens remember and draw lessons from the Holocaust. The annual DRVH period normally begins on the Sunday before the Jewish observance of "Yom HaShoah", Holocaust Memorial Day, and continues through the following Sunday, usually in April or May. A National Civic Commemoration is held in Washington, D.C.,

neg: Humanitarian Fund for the Victims of the Holocaust Humanitarian Fund for the Victims of the Holocaust The Humanitarian Fund for the Victims of the Holocaust was created by the Swiss Bankers Association (SBA) as a result of the "Meili Affair". The fund enabled the Swiss financial industry to participate in the process of paying reparations to the victims of Nazi looting during World War II that was abetted by Swiss banks and the failure of Swiss life insurance companies to honor the policies of Holocaust victims. The fund is administered by the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims. Christoph Meili was a Swiss whistleblower, later granted political

neg: International Holocaust Remembrance Day held earlier that year on 24 January 2005 during which the United Nations General Assembly marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the end of the Holocaust. On 27 January 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and death camp, was liberated by the Red Army. Prior to the 60/7 resolution, there had been national days of commemoration, such as Germany's (The Day of remembrance for the victims of National Socialism), established in a proclamation issued by Federal President Roman Herzog on 3 January 1996; and the Holocaust memorial day observed every 27 January since

neg: Menachem Mendel Taub Ohio. He and his wife immigrated to Israel in 1962. The following year he founded Kiryas Kaliv in Rishon LeZion. The foundation stone was laid on 7 Adar 5723 (3 March 1963), the day of the yahrtzeit of the founder of the dynasty, Grand Rabbi Yitzchak Isak Taub. Several years later he moved his headquarters to Bnei Brak. In 2004, the rebbe's court moved to Jerusalem. Since World War II, the Rebbe has actively spoken about the Holocaust and frequently invokes the memory of the Jewish martyrs. He has encouraged the recital of "Shema Yisrael" to memorialize Holocaust victims at

neg: Holocaust Museum in Curitiba Holocaust Museum in Curitiba The Holocaust Museum in Curitiba (in Portuguese, "Museu do Holocausto de Curitiba") is a museum situated in the city of Curitiba, capital of the Brazilian state of Paraná. It was the first of that theme in Brazil, aiming to keep alive the memory of the Holocaust through the memory of its victims and its survivors. Conceived by the "Associação Casa de Cultura Beit Yaacov", the museum was raised at an area of about 400 square meters, next to the Centro Israelita do Paraná, at the building of the new synagogue Beit Yaacov, at the center of

neg: Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust (introduced 6/22/1978) Cosponsors (3) Latest Major Action: 9/18/1978 Public Law 95-371. On November 1, 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed an "Executive Order" establishing the "President’s Commission on the Holocaust", to be chaired by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. Its mandate was to investigate the creation and maintenance of a memorial to victims of the Holocaust and an appropriate annual commemoration in their memory. "Executive Order 12093, November 1, 1978: On April 24, 1979, in anticipation of the Commission's report, the first National Civic Commemoration was held in the Capitol Rotunda, with the address delivered by President Carter: Although words do pale,

neg: International Holocaust Remembrance Day Project and Yad Vashem – the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes Remembrance Authority. An initiative of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust Survivors’ Memoirs Project has collected over 900 manuscripts. Its mission is to provide both the victims and the survivors of the Holocaust with the dignity of a permanent historical presence, not as impersonal statistics but as individuals with names, voices and emotions. The United Nations bookstore also had a discussion by Daniel Mendelsohn about his book "". The Department of Public Information also marked the Holocaust Remembrance Week with two exhibits in the United Nations visitors’ lobby.

neg: Norman Kleeblatt rather than Holocaust victims. In 2008 “Theaters of Memory: Art and the Holocaust” presented eight artists’ works that related history surrounding World War II, the atrocities of genocide and mass destruction, and their attendant moral devastation. "Action/Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976" (2008–2009) reinterpreted Abstract Expressionism from the perspectives of influential, rival art critics Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg. Kleeblatt won numerous awards for this exhibit including Best Thematic Museum Show in New York City in 2008 from The International Art Critics Association, and the Outstanding Exhibition award from the Association of Art Museum Curators. The catalogue received

neg: Blind Love (2015 film) and culture. On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the blind participants and their guide dogs marched from Auschwitz-Birkenau in memory of the victims of Nazi genocide and against prejudice, intolerance and hate. The Holocaust survivors who appear in the film are Belgian Auschwitz survivor David Shentow, and Polish born Max Glauben, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto and Majdanek. Both survivors reflect upon the dramatic contrast in the usage of dogs by those who sought to harm innocent people. and those who employ dogs in the service of others. David Shentow describes his arrival in Auschwitz at 17 years of age, recalling

neg: Wiesel Commission Year 10 high school curricula, and the designs for a National Memorial for Romanian Victims of the Holocaust have been finalised. On October 9, 2006 (the National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust in Romania), the keystone for the memorial was laid by Romanian President Traian Băsescu. Wiesel Commission The Wiesel Commission is the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania, which was established by former President Ion Iliescu in October 2003 to research and create a report on the actual history of the Holocaust in Romania and make specific recommendations for educating the public on the issue. The Commission, which

neg: International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims U.S. states that would provide compensation for such victims. However, New York, California and Florida each passed legislation entitling survivors to compensation prior to its organization. In New York, Senator Guy Velella, sponsored such legislation and hearings with insurance archeology specialists were held to prove victims were denied such claims. The International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims ceased accepting claim forms/applications from Holocaust survivors on March 31, 2004. According to the ICHEIC website, all timely filed claims received a final decision through the ICHEIC process by December 2006. International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims The International Commission on

neg: UK Holocaust Memorial UK Holocaust Memorial The UK Holocaust Memorial is a planned memorial to the victims of the Holocaust that is intended to be built in the southern part of Victoria Tower Gardens in London, United Kingdom, close to the Houses of Parliament. The memorial is intended to honour the Jewish victims of the Holocaust and all other victims of Nazi persecution, including Roma, LGBT, and disabled people. The memorial design was decided on through an international competition that had 92 entries, leading to 10 finalists that were decided on by a panel of 13 people comprising Peter Bazalgette (chair), Charlotte Cohen,

neg: International Holocaust Remembrance Day Ukraine, tells the story of local people who escaped brutal execution and those who rescued friends and neighbours during the Holocaust. Both films, produced by USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, were shown in the Dag Hammarskjold Library Auditorium. On 2 February, the third discussion paper in the Holocaust and Genocide series was published, about Hitler, Pol Pot and Hutu Power. Throughout the week of 28 January 2008, the United Nations Department of Public Information organized a number of events around the world to remember the victims of the Holocaust and underscore the value of human life.

neg: UK Holocaust Memorial on September 4-8 2018. UK Holocaust Memorial The UK Holocaust Memorial is a planned memorial to the victims of the Holocaust that is intended to be built in the southern part of Victoria Tower Gardens in London, United Kingdom, close to the Houses of Parliament. The memorial is intended to honour the Jewish victims of the Holocaust and all other victims of Nazi persecution, including Roma, LGBT, and disabled people. The memorial design was decided on through an international competition that had 92 entries, leading to 10 finalists that were decided on by a panel of 13 people comprising Peter

neg: Jewish holidays also recognizes several ethnic Jewish observances with holiday status. "Yom HaShoah" (lit. "Holocaust Day") is a day of remembrance for victims of the Holocaust. Its full name is "Yom Hazikaron LaShoah v'LiGevurah" (lit. "Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day") (), and reflects a desire to recognize martyrs who died in active resistance to the Nazis alongside those who died as passive victims. Its date, 27 Nisan, was chosen because it commemorates the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the best known of the armed Jewish uprisings. Places of public entertainment are closed throughout Israel in recognition of the day. Public commemoration of Yom HaShoah

neg: Witnesses (2018 film) ends with a hundred years later concert at the Wailing Wall. Status: finished film Film premiered as part of the competition program of the 39th Moscow International Film Festival in June 2017. It is also longlisted for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film and won the award of the name of Vera Glagoleva in Sochi International Film Awards Witnesses (2018 film) Witnesses is a historical drama directed by Konstantin Fam, consisting of three novellas "Shoes", "Brutus" and "Violin", united by a common concept and dedicated to the memory of Holocaust victims. Also known as The Trilogy "Witnesses". The

neg: Dave Aronberg at the time was serving as Florida’s Insurance Commissioner. Nelson and Aronberg worked together to investigate European insurance companies that refused to honor World War II era policies sold to victims of the Holocaust. Working with members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the investigation led to the establishment of the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC) and the enactment of Florida's Holocaust Victims Assistance Act to ensure that insurance claims of Holocaust victims were expeditiously identified and properly paid, compensated, or returned. Aronberg worked as an Assistant Attorney General in the Economic Crimes Division of

neg: National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust The National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust ("Ziua Naţională de Comemorare a Holocaustului" in Romanian) is a national event held on October 9 in Romania. It is dedicated to the remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust and particularly to reflecting on Romania's role in the Holocaust. Various commemoration events and ceremonies take place throughout Romania in order to remember the Jews and Romani who died in the Holocaust. The first National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust was held in 2004. October 9 was chosen as a date for this event because it marks

neg: Holocaust Memorial Day (UK) national event, there are numerous smaller memorial events around the country organised by many different organisations, groups and individuals. Over 5,590 local commemorative activities took place in the UK for Holocaust Memorial Day 2016. Since 2005, Holocaust Memorial Day has been supported by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, a charity set up and funded by the UK Government. The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2017 was "How can life go on?" Every year since 2001, there has been an annual national memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. The UK Event has been hosted in: As preparations began to mark

neg: Historikerstreit exerted by historical memory of the Nazi past. Nolte concluded that there was excessive contemporary interest in the Holocaust because it served the concerns of those descended from the victims of Nazism, and placed them in a "permanent status of privilege". Nolte argued that Germans had an unhealthy obsession with guilt for Nazi crimes, and called for an end to this "obsession". Nolte's opinion was that there was no moral difference between German self-guilt over the Holocaust, and Nazi claims of Jewish collective guilt for all the world's problems. He called for an end to the maintaining of the memory

neg: Holocaust memorial landscapes in Germany 2,711 concrete steles, of different heights through which visitors can walk. While Eisenman does not explicitly explain the meaning behind these forms, Constanze Petrow speculates that their collective form provides both a recollection of traditional Jewish cemeteries as well as a sense of loss of the Jewish community through the contrast of the quiet space of the memorial with the noise of the surrounding city. Holocaust memorial landscapes in Germany Holocaust memorial landscapes in Germany encompass a large group of commemorative works dealing with the outdoor built environment. Most often these memorials attempt to keep the memory of Holocaust victims

neg: Humanitarian Fund for the Victims of the Holocaust million. he ICHEIC also funded the Initiative to Bring Jewish Cultural Literacy to Youth in the Former Soviet Union, which was developed and administered by the Jewish Agency for Israel. The program sought to promote Jewish identify in the FSU, expand understanding of the Holocaust, and fight anti-Semitism. The ICHEIC also launched a Program for Holocaust Education in Europe, which was developed and implemented by Yad Vashem. The program seeks to preserve the memory of the Holocaust and teach its lessons to new generations of Europeans, as well as combat anti-Semitism. Scheduled to last through 2020,the ICHEIC committed over US$12

neg: International response to the Holocaust human rights activism of the delegate René Cassin of France, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968 for his work on the Universal Declaration, was motivated in part by the death of many Jewish relatives in the Holocaust and his involvement in Jewish organisations providing aid to Holocaust survivors. Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, The Great Democracies' Disgrace on Arutz Sheva. International response to the Holocaust In the decades since the Holocaust, some national governments, international bodies and world leaders have been criticized for their failure to take appropriate action to save the millions of European Jews, Roma, and other victims

neg: Pierre Poilievre the Conference Against Racism, Discrimination, and Persecution. This conference was held at the same time as the Durban Review Conference, which had been criticized by the Prime Minister as full of "anti-Semitic rhetoric". During the same trip, Poilievre traveled to Poland to participate in the International March of the Living Mission, a tour of Nazi concentration camps to commemorate the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Poilievre is opposed to a national carbon tax. In May 2009 Poilievre was accused of having insensitively used the term "tar baby" in the House of Commons in reference to a policy of

neg: Humanitarian Fund for the Victims of the Holocaust culpability by destroying documents. Credit Suisse Chairman Rainer gut suggested the formation of the Fund to the SBA. The Meili affair also influenced the holding of the London Conference on Nazi Gold (1997). The Humanitarian Fund for the Victims of the Holocaust is overseen by the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC), which was established in 1998. The organization and the fund were established as per settlement agreements with insurance companies and the German Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility, and Future". The Fund finances humanitarian projects related to the Holocaust in two areas: paying out "humanitarian" claims, and funding social

neg: Mauthausen Trilogy a ceremony at the Greek memorial of Mauthausen honouring the memory of the 3,700 Greek victims of the Holocaust with Zoe Konstantopoulou attending as speaker of the Hellenic Parliament on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the camp. Delegations from other European states and thousands of Europeans also attended ceremonies at the memorials of their individual countries. In October 2015 the municipality of Larissa in Greece included the performance of Theodorakis's ballad as part of a five-day celebration commemorating the liberation of the city from the Nazi occupation. The song "Andonis" from the ballad has been

neg: Politics of memory this way, evaluated, e.g. the Holocaust, the war against Eastern Europe with its ethnic cleansing programs, but also the bombings of city's by German and Allied forces alike or the expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe. Speeches by politicians often deal with issues of how to memorise the past. Richard von Weizsäcker as Bundespräsident identified two modes of memorising the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945 in his famous 1985 speech: this date can be seen as defeat or liberation. Weizsäcker backed the latter Interpretation. In this regard, such moments as the first official "Day of Commemoration for Victims

neg: David Ward (British politician) others should be treated", he said in a later statement. Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, said: "Mr Ward has deliberately abused the memory of the Holocaust, causing deep pain and offence – these comments are sickening and unacceptable and have no place in British politics". Jon Benjamin, chief executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said: "We are outraged and shocked at these offensive comments about Jewish victims of the Holocaust and the suggestion that Jews should have learned a lesson from the experience." On Twitter, National Union of Students education officer Rachel Wenstone

neg: Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research The Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research is an annual award by Yad Vashem in recognition of high scholarly research and writing on the Holocaust or its antecedents and aftermath published two years preceding the year of the award. It was established in 2011 in memory of Abraham Meir Schwartzbaum, Holocaust survivor, and his family who was murdered in the Holocaust. The 2013 call for prize is to consider the works published between January 2011 and December 2013. On December 10, 2012, the award was presented to Dr. Christoph Dieckmann,

neg: Pierre Seel the Holocaust by the International Organization for Migration's program for aiding Nazi victims. In April 2005, President Jacques Chirac, during the "Journée nationale du souvenir des victimes et des héros de la déportation" (the French equivalent to the Holocaust Memorial Day), said: "In Germany, but also on French territory, men and women whose personal lives were set aside, I am thinking of homosexuals, were hunted, arrested and deported." On 23 February 2008, the municipality of Toulouse renamed a street in the city in honour of Seel. The name plaque reads "Rue Pierre Seel - Déporté français pour homosexualité - 1923-2005".

neg: World Jewish Congress Holocaust Remembrance Day that had generated controversy for failing to mention that the victims of the Holocaust were Jewish. In response to Anti-Defamation League director Jonathan Greenblatt's criticism of the statement, Lauder dismissed concern for remembering the Jewish identities of the victims of the Holocaust as "manufactured controversies." Since the end of World War II, the WJC has pressed governments and private enterprises to return seized or looted Jewish assets to their rightful owners. It was instrumental in concluding agreements with a number of European countries. "See above:" Restitution of Holocaust-era assets and compensation payments In its policy guidelines the

neg: Shoes (2012 film) Shoes (2012 film) Shoes is a 2012 international short film directed, written and produced by Konstantin Fam. The film is the result of a joint effort by professional team from Russia, the USA, the Czech Republic, Poland, France, Belarus and Ukraine. The film is the first novel of the film trilogy "Witnesses" dedicated to the memory of victims of the Holocaust. It was the only nominee from Russia for the Academy Awards in the short film category in 2013. The first installment traces the personal history of a Jewish girl in 1930s-1940s from the point of view of a pair

neg: Freedom of religion in Armenia at the time of their acquittal. The others had received sentences ranging from 2 to 3 years in prison and served between 5 and 9 months of their sentences. On October 27, 2006, Yerevan's Holocaust memorial, which had been inexplicably vandalized earlier in the year, was replaced and rededicated to the memory of both Jews and Armenians who had been the victims of "heinous crimes." A gesture of respect and national empathy, the memorial was erected with the cooperation of international donors, the Jewish community, Armenian Diaspora organizations, and the Government. Societal attitudes toward most minority religious groups were ambivalent.

neg: International Committee of the Red Cross Among the slain delegates were: By taking part in the 1995 ceremony to commemorate the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, the President of the ICRC, Cornelio Sommaruga, sought to show that the organization was fully aware of the gravity of The Holocaust and the need to keep the memory of it alive, so as to prevent any repetition of it. He paid tribute to all those who had suffered or lost their lives during the war and publicly regretted the past mistakes and shortcomings of the Red Cross with regard to the victims of the concentration camps. In 2002,

neg: Roman Shvartsman former prisoners of the ghetto was created, where Roman was Deputy Chairman, which at that time was Leonid Sushon. In 2002, at the Odessa regional conference, dedicated to the results of the Association, Roman was elected Chairman of the Association, the head of which he is to date. He contributes to the annual festive events, in the Prokhorovsky square, dedicated to the International day of remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust, which the whole world celebrates on January 27. The International day of liberation of concentration camp prisoners is celebrated annually on April 12, as well as holding events

neg: Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust April 18, 2007, in a "DRVH" ceremony held in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, President George W. Bush delivered an address that linked definitions and words—including the "new word", "genocide", that had come out of the Holocaust experience—to the challenge to remember: This is a place devoted to memory. Inside this building are etched the words of the Prophet Isaiah: "You are my witness." As part of this witness, these walls show how one of the world's most advanced nations embraced a policy aimed at the annihilation of the Jewish people. These walls help restore the humanity of the millions

neg: Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation "The Guardian" published a description by one of its readers, who noted the memorial's obscurity and called it "small, stark and savagely detailed... which goes unnoticed by the thousands of tourists who take selfies of themselves in front of the adjoining cathedral every day. It is a place for tears and quiet contemplation; a refuge from the crowds and a reminder of one of the darkest episodes in recent history." According to Peter Carrier, author of "Holocaust Monuments and National Memory Cultures in France and Germany Since 1989", the memorial lacks specific references to Jewish victims, and "its dedication to

neg: Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research of Keele University (UK), for his 2-volume book "Deutsche Besatzungspolitik in Litauen 1941-1944" ("German Occupation Policy in Lithuania 1941-1944"). The first award ceremony was at Yad Vashem on January 8, 2012. Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research The Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research is an annual award by Yad Vashem in recognition of high scholarly research and writing on the Holocaust or its antecedents and aftermath published two years preceding the year of the award. It was established in 2011 in memory of Abraham Meir Schwartzbaum, Holocaust survivor, and his family who was murdered in

neg: International response to the Holocaust International response to the Holocaust In the decades since the Holocaust, some national governments, international bodies and world leaders have been criticized for their failure to take appropriate action to save the millions of European Jews, Roma, and other victims of the Holocaust. Critics say that such intervention, particularly by the Allied governments, might have saved substantial numbers of people and could have been accomplished without the diversion of significant resources from the war effort. Other researchers have challenged such criticism. Some have argued that the idea that the Allies took no action is a myth—that the Allies accepted as

neg: Hitler's Children (2011 film) have decided to discuss their situation in public–several have authored books–or decided whether or not to keep the family name, to have children, to live in Germany, or celebrate their German heritage. The film also explores one's relationship to the victims of the Holocaust. "Hitler's Children" was completed in 2011 and was produced by Chanoch Zeevi's company Maya Production, in co-production with the German company Saxonia Entertainment. The film was first broadcast on Israeli Channel 2 on 1 May 2011, the eve of the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Day, and was first shown internationally in November 2011 at the International Documentary

neg: Holocaust denial to gain the solidarity of international public opinion with Zionism. Many scholars have debated the figure of six million and reached stunning conclusions—fixing the number of Jewish victims at only a few hundred thousand." In his March 2006 interview with "Haaretz", Abbas stated, "I wrote in detail about the Holocaust and said I did not want to discuss numbers. I quoted an argument between historians in which various numbers of casualties were mentioned. One wrote there were 12 million victims and another wrote there were 800,000. I have no desire to argue with the figures. The Holocaust was a terrible,

neg: Aftermath of the Holocaust a dramatic decline in the use of Yiddish, as the extensive Jewish communities, both secular and religious, that used Yiddish in their day-to-day lives were largely destroyed. Around five million victims of the Holocaust, or 85% of the total, were speakers of Yiddish. Holocaust theology is a body of theological and philosophical debate concerning the role of God in the universe in light of the Holocaust of the late 1930s and 1940s. It is primarily found in Judaism; Jews were drastically affected by the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were murdered in a genocide by Nazi Germany and its

neg: Szczurowa massacre they were shot. A list of all the victims has been preserved in the documents of the local church. On May 8, 1956, local inhabitants of the village and members of local veterans' associations erected a memorial stone with a suitable inscription at the site of the mass grave of the victims. This became the first memorial commemorating victims of the Romani Holocaust in the world. The memorial is cared for by local schoolchildren and the memory of the tragedy is part of the local historical consciousness. Since 1960, Romanies from Tarnów have been coming to the region to honor

neg: Glitter, Shards, Doom, Memory Glitter, Shards, Doom, Memory Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory is the third string quartet by the Israeli-born composer Shulamit Ran. The work was commissioned by the arts organization Music Accord for the Pacifica Quartet who first performed it on May 24, 2014 in Toronto. "Glitter, Shards, Doom, Memory" pays tribute to the Jewish artist Felix Nussbaum and other victims of the Holocaust. Ran wrote in the score program note, “As in several other works composed since 1969, this is my way of saying, ‘Do not forget,’ something that I believe can be done through music with special power and poignancy.” The

neg: Glitter, Shards, Doom, Memory little too clever, and too artfully fragmented for its own good." He added: Glitter, Shards, Doom, Memory Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory is the third string quartet by the Israeli-born composer Shulamit Ran. The work was commissioned by the arts organization Music Accord for the Pacifica Quartet who first performed it on May 24, 2014 in Toronto. "Glitter, Shards, Doom, Memory" pays tribute to the Jewish artist Felix Nussbaum and other victims of the Holocaust. Ran wrote in the score program note, “As in several other works composed since 1969, this is my way of saying, ‘Do not forget,’ something that

neg: William P. Levine the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. While at the cemetery, Maurice Pirot, a Belgian Jew, recognized Levine as one of his saviors, the soldier who had rescued him by carrying him in his arms. In May 1990, Levine recorded an oral history with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He spoke about his life, wartime experience, and work with Holocaust victims. He also spoke at Chicago's 1995 annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. He spoke about his experience and the experiences of the victims he met there. Levine married twice. His first wife, Leah Goldberg, died in 1975. In

neg: UNITED for Intercultural Action UNITED coordinates an annual pan-European campaign on occasion of the 9 November, called International Day against Fascism and Antisemitism. Hereby, the approach is two-fold: while one part of the campaign aims to commemorate victims of the "Kristallnacht" pogrom and, more broadly, victims of the Holocaust and of fascism throughout history; another part focuses mostly on contemporary issues of racism, antisemitism, right-wing extremism and neo-fascism. The campaign is joined by many different groups with independent actions which are collected by UNITED in an online map available at www.dayagainstfascism.eu. Since 1993 UNITED has been monitoring the deadly results of the building of

neg: National Holocaust Monument Holocaust. Laura Grosman who is a student at the University of Ottawa began a campaign to see a monument of such built in Ottawa. She is the granddaughter of a Polish-born Holocaust survivor and has found passion in attempting to understand the international relation that Canada played with the Holocaust. More recently concerns have been raised about the lack of recognition given to the millions of non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust. National Holocaust Monument The National Holocaust Monument (French: "Monument National de L'Holocauste") is a Holocaust memorial in Ottawa, Canada's capital, across from the Canadian War Museum at the northeast

neg: Heather Connell at the New York Independent Film Festival and Best Narration and World Peace Impact Award from the Artisan World Peace Hamptons Film Festival and Feature Documentary Audience Award at the First Glance International Film Festival Los Angeles. In 2016, on the United Nations Holocaust Remembrance Day, Forget Us Not was featured by the Buffalo Holocaust Resource Center to a standing room only crowd. http://ampoleagle.com/documentary-forget-us-not-remembers-nonjewish-victims-of-nazi-atrocitiesb-p9692-129.htm It is currently available across streaming platforms and available for educational and other screening options through TUGG, a theatrical event platform that lets you bring the movies you want to your local theater or community venue.

neg: International Composing Competition “2 Agosto” International Composing Competition “2 Agosto” The International Composition Competition "2 Agosto" is a major composition competition in Italy. It was established in 1994 at the behest of the Association of the families of the victims of the massacre at Bologna Station on August 2, 1980. The competition was created with the aim of keeping alive the memory of the victims, but at the same time to overcome the concept of mere commemoration, turning the day of August 2 in a creative and artistic response to the act of terrorism. The competition is held under the High Patronage of the President

neg: Kiryat Shaul Cemetery as a "closed cemetery" by Bituah Leumi, allowing the collection of fees. Like most other cemeteries in Israel, Kiryat Shaul cemetery erected memorials in memory of the victims of The Holocaust. Under Some of the monuments buried the remains, ashes and bones that were brought back from the extermination camps. The memorials include: Jews of Brest, Bukovina, Minsk, Kraków, Oświęcim, Radom, and Ivano-Frankivsk. Additionally, there is a dedicated plot for the Righteous Among the Nations and another for victims of terrorist acts. Nearby the entrance to the cemetery is the resting place of five of the victims of the Munich

neg: Holocaust Memorial Day (UK) is a simplified version of the Stockholm Declaration, and includes a commitment to remember all victims of Nazi Persecution, and victims of all genocides. Many HMD activity organisers use this by arranging for participants to read from as part of their activity. Between 2001 and 2007, the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) expressed its unwillingness to attend the ceremony. The MCB instead called for a more inclusive day proposing the commemoration of deaths in Palestine, Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, along with the Holocaust. In a press release dated 26 January 2001 the Council listed two points of contention that

neg: Holocaust Educational Trust Holocaust survivor, Kitty Hart-Moxon, discussing "why and how we remember the Holocaust and how we can communicate its relevance in contemporary British society." Between 18 and 26 July 2013, for the first time, a select team of young people belonging to the HET Ambassador community, attended a seminar in Holocaust Studies at the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. From 2008, the Trust campaigned to have British people such as Frank Foley, who had assisted in the rescue of Holocaust victims, posthumously recognised with official British Honours. The Government created the British Hero of the Holocaust

neg: Judaism They are the 17th Tamuz, the 10th of Tevet and Tzom Gedaliah (the 3rd of Tishrei). The modern holidays of Yom Ha-shoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Yom Hazikaron (Israeli Memorial Day) and Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day) commemorate the horrors of the Holocaust, the fallen soldiers of Israel and victims of terrorism, and Israeli independence, respectively. There are some who prefer to commemorate those who were killed in the Holocaust on the 10th of Tevet. The core of festival and Shabbat prayer services is the public reading of the Torah, along with connected readings from the other books of the Tanakh,

neg: Knesset Menorah this is a self-portrait Alkan, who survived the inferno but lost much of his family in the Holocaust. The choice of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising as an expression of the entire Holocaust was very typical of Israel in the fifties and early sixties. The day chosen to commemorate the victims is called "Yom Hazikaron laShoah ve-laG'vurah" (Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day), and is held annually on 27 of Nissan, which is the date closest to the outbreak of the rebellion. Alkan continues with this line when he sought to glorify the heroism of the Jewish resistance during the Holocaust, which

neg: Jacob Hiatt of the Holocaust lived, and had an audience with Pope Pius XII. He then travelled to see the emerging Jewish state of Israel. After he returned home, Hiatt became a supporter of the establishment of the state of Israel as well as the cause of Holocaust victims. In 1960, Hiatt was appointed to the Board of Directors of the North American Division of the World Jewish Congress. After the death of his wife in 1980, Hiatt purchased a square block of land in Jerusalem for the creation of a park in her memory. Hiatt gave $1 million to expand and

neg: Yad Vashem Yad Vashem Yad Vashem (; literally, "a monument and a name") is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the dead; honoring Jews who fought against their Nazi oppressors and Gentiles who selflessly aided Jews in need; and researching the phenomenon of the Holocaust in particular and genocide in general, with the aim of avoiding such events in the future. Established in 1953, Yad Vashem is on the western slope of Mount Herzl, also known as the Mount of Remembrance, a height in western Jerusalem, above sea level and adjacent

neg: Requiem Polish hymn within the sequence, and Robert Steadman's "Mass in Black" intersperses environmental poetry and prophecies of Nostradamus. Holocaust Requiem may be regarded as a specific subset of this type. The "Requiem Ebraico" (Hebrew Requiem) (1945) by Austrian-American composer Eric Zeisl, a setting of Psalm 92 dedicated to the memory of the composer's father "and the other countless victims of the Jewish tragedy in Europe", is considered the first major work of Holocaust commemoration. John Foulds's "A World Requiem" was written in the aftermath of the First World War and initiated the Royal British Legion's annual festival of remembrance. Recent

neg: Yad Vashem donated by survivors' families or discovered in attics. Included in the collection are works by Alexander Bogen, Alice Lok Cahana, Samuel Bak, and Felix Nussbaum. Yad Vashem awards the following book prizes: Yad Vashem Yad Vashem (; literally, "a monument and a name") is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the dead; honoring Jews who fought against their Nazi oppressors and Gentiles who selflessly aided Jews in need; and researching the phenomenon of the Holocaust in particular and genocide in general, with the aim of avoiding such events in

neg: Romani genocide others". The effects of the illiteracy, the lack of social institutions, and the rampant discrimination faced by Roma in Europe today have produced a people who, according to Fortuna, lack a "national consciousness ... and historical memory of the Holocaust because there is no Roma elite." The first memorial commemorating victims of the Romani Holocaust was erected on May 8, 1956, in the Polish village of Szczurowa commemorating the Szczurowa massacre. Since 1996, a Gypsy Caravan Memorial has been traveling among the main remembrance sites in Poland, from Tarnów via Auschwitz, Szczurowa and Borzęcin Dolny, gathering the Romani and well-wishers

neg: Holocaust Memorial Day (UK) Holocaust Memorial Day 2017, the BBC's "Antiques Roadshow", broadcast on 15 January 2017, was a special Holocaust Memorial programme that included many precious objects from Holocaust victims and survivors. The UK Commemorative Ceremony for HMD was broadcast by the BBC. Participants included Robert Lindsay, Emilia Fox, Freddie Fox, Naomie Harris, David Olusoga, Dame Kristin Scott Thomas and Kevin Whately. Music throughout the ceremony was provided by a diverse range of acts including Darfuri singer Shurooq Abu el Nas, the Choir of Clare College Cambridge, the London Klezmer Quartet and violinist Jennifer Pike. Survivors and their experiences were central to the

neg: Holocaust Memorial Day (UK) des Nationalsozialismus" (Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism) in Germany. Italy and Poland have adopted similar memorial days. On 10 June 1999, Andrew Dismore MP asked Prime Minister Tony Blair about the creation of memorial day for the Holocaust. In reply, Tony Blair also referred to the ethnic cleansing that was being witnessed in the Kosovo War at that time and said: I am determined to ensure that the horrendous crimes against humanity committed during the Holocaust are never forgotten. The ethnic cleansing and killing that has taken place in Europe in recent weeks are a stark

neg: Brutus (2016 film) Brutus (2016 film) Brutus () is a short film directed by Konstantin Fam of 2015, the second novel of the film trilogy "Witnesses" and the sequel of the "Shoes", dedicated to the memory of Holocaust victims. “Brutus” continues the concept of The trilogy "Witnesses" and tells us story of the Holocaust through the eyes of a German Shepherd dog Brutus. The Nuremberg Laws have separated the dog with his favorite mistress, Jewish woman. In the process of training and taming Brutus becomes a concentration camp beast-killer. The film is based on a novel of a Czech writer Ludvik Ashkenazy. Filmmakers

neg: Baptism for the dead now ended. Jewish groups, he said, would now turn to the court of public opinion for justice. Michel called the practice a revision of history that plays into the hands of Holocaust deniers, stating: "They tell me, that my parents' Jewishness has not been altered but ... 100 years from now, how will they be able to guarantee that my mother and father of blessed memory who lived as Jews and were slaughtered by Hitler for no other reason than they were Jews, will someday not be identified as Mormon victims of the Holocaust?" Church officials, in response, stated that

neg: International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance is the founding document of the IHRA. It consists of eight paragraphs, which emphasize the importance of education, remembrance and research about the Holocaust. The declaration advocates the need to uphold the "terrible truth of the Holocaust against those who deny it," and to preserve the memory of the Holocaust as a "touchstone in our understanding of the human capacity for good and evil." According to the declaration, "the international community shares a solemn responsibility to fight" "genocide, ethnic cleansing, racism, antisemitism and xenophobia". The logo of the IHRA, adopted in 2013, was designed by the renown architect, Daniel Libeskind.