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| | The Ryze New York City Network is not currently active and cannot accept new posts | | Holocaust Remembrance Day at the United Nations in New York City this Monday | Views: 412 | | Jan 28, 2007 4:43 pm | | Holocaust Remembrance Day at the United Nations in New York City this Monday | # | 
Joseph L. Rosenberg | |
I'll be there in person as my son is singing at the general assembly with Hazamir, the Jewish International Choral Group for high school students.
Check the UN website for the webcast of the event and others during the week.
Here is the calendar of events from the UN website, for those who are interested:
Holocaust Remembrance Day (29 January):
The International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust (29 January) will be observed at UNHQ with a week-long programme, including a ceremony in the General Assembly Hall (see list of activities below). In light of the 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the observance will also focus on persons with disabilities as one of the many victim groups of the Nazi regime. DPI will launch a new outreach tool containing survivor testimony and resources for Member States, educators and UNICs called, Electronic Notes for Speakers, created for the UN by Yad Vashem, the Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education and the Memorial de la Shoah. It will be available at http://www.un.org/holocaustremembrance. The week-long observance is organized by DPI's Advocacy Unit, Outreach Division.
Activities
29 January (10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. General Assembly Hall and Conference Room 2): Ceremony and "Remembrance and Beyond" lecture. It will include a keynote address by Madame Simone Veil, President of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah and a Holocaust survivor, and address by a university student on the importance of learning about the Holocaust. HaZamir, the International Jewish High School Chamber Choir, will perform.
Contact: specialprojects2@un.org, or call Marc 917-367-5841.
30 January (6:00 p.m.): Exhibits opening, "The Holocaust Against the Sinti and Roma and Present Day Racism in Europe" and Holocaust survivor art. (By invitation only: wichmann@un.org)
31 January (6:00 p.m. DHL Auditorium): Screening of Volevo solo Vivere (I Only Wanted to Live), directed by Mimmo Calopresti (Limited seating: sura@un.org)
1 February (6:00 p.m. DHL Auditorium): Screening of Nazvy svoie im'ia (Spell Your Name), directed by Serhiy Bukovsky (Limited seating: sura@un.org)
2 February: Publication of the third Holocaust and Genocide discussion paper titled, "Hitler, Pol Pot and Hutu Power: Distinguishing Themes of Genocidal Ideology", by Professor Ben Kiernan, Director, Genocide Studies Programme, Yale University.
EXHIBITS at UNHQ
29 January - 22 February (Main Gallery): "A two-part exhibition in observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust: "The Holocaust Against the Roma and Sinti and present day racism in Europe, and "Remembrance and Beyond: Art of the Survivors" -- an exhibit featuring artwork by Holocaust survivors Joseph Bau, Henny de Brito, David Friedman and Hanka Kornfeld-Marder. Sponsored by the Documentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma and DPI.
Joe Rosenberg CPA
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