UK: Speech on Holocaust Memorial Day

http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/newsroom/latest-news

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Holocaust Memorial Center Budapest

 
January 2009
Topic: Peaceful living together along the history
Commemoration at the Center on January 27

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ODIHR’s press release

On Holocaust Memorial Day, OSCE/ODIHR expresses concern about rise in anti-Semitic acts
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WARSAW, 27 January 2009 – The head of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) expressed concern today about an increase in anti-Semitic acts across the OSCE region in comments released to mark the International [...]

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UN 2009 Calendar of Holocaust Remembrance Events

The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme
Monday 26 January

9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.: Videoconference with francophone UN Information Centres, the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme, Mémorial de la Shoah (Paris) at UNESCO, Paris.
For information, please contact prudhommem@un.org.
1:15 p.m. : “Roads to death: The Pharrajimos in Hungary” an exhibition on the persecution and [...]

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UN Refuses to Acknowledge Romani Victims of the Holocaust at Annual Ceremony

Posted Thu, 01/15/2009 – 9:59pm

On 27 January 2009 the United Nations’ will hold its 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. in the General Assembly Hall in New York. No Romani representation was sought. Requests asking why and for inclusion [...]

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students creating the museum

Here is the YouTube link to our first video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLqhMYVm0AQ

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Classroom Holocaust Museum

Miljenko and his students in Croatia are preparing to open their Classroom Holocaust Museum on January 27, 2009.  I am including a couple of pictures he took and made available to me online.  Please consider contacting him and is class on a job very well done!  You can reach him at: info@inter-nos.biz.  The website he [...]

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January 27 United Nations

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 [...]

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INTERNATIONAL TRACING CENTER

http://www.its-arolsen.org/en/homepage/index.html
In its mission statement, the International Tracing Service (ITS) declares its commitment to serve the victims of Nazi persecution and their families by documenting and evaluating the fate of the victims and maintaining this information in its archives.
The archive’s collections are unique in scope and significance. The ITS is responsible for preserving historical records, [...]

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SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER

http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&b=4441251

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