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| January 27th: International Holocaust Remembrance Day |
| Last Modified at:15-Dec-2008 |
U.N. designated International Holocaust Remembrance Day to be observed all over the world on January 27th. Events and activities will be held in Israel and around the world to honor the victims of the Holocaust and preserve their memory.
On November 2005, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution designating January 27th as International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. The U.N. also created an outreach program to remind the world of the lessons to be learnt from the Holocaust in order to help to prevent future acts of genocide.
The symbolic date was chosen because on January 27, 1945, Soviet troops entered the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp and liberated the 7,000 remaining survivors.
The U.N. will observe the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the victims of the Holocaust with a ceremony and a concert in the General Assembly Hall at United Nations Headquarters on January 28th and a series of additional events.
International Youth Congress in Yad Vashem
The Yad Vashem International School for Holocaust Studies hosts an International three-day Youth Congress, starting Sunday January 27th and gathering youth leaders from across the globe to meet, converse and make the voice of their generation heard on the subject of shaping Holocaust remembrance and its significance for the future.
During the congress, students will visit the new historical museum at Yad Vashem, tour various memorial sites on campus, meet with Holocaust survivors, and discuss major historical, ethical, educational, and philosophical issues with leading scholars. In addition, the students will explore the multi-cultural city of Jerusalem.
Yad Vashem Arabic Website
Yad Vashem has launched a new website about the Holocaust in Arabic,
featuring the historical narrative of the Holocaust, concepts from the Holocaust, academic articles, artifacts, maps, photos, archival documents and an online video testimony resource center all translated into Arabic, as well as a special multimedia presentation of the Auschwitz Album, with Arabic narration, stories of Righteous Among the Nations- including Muslims from Turkey and Albania - and the movie We Were There, which documents a joint visit of Arabs and Jews to Auschwitz.
A recent poll by Yad Vashem showed that 40 percent of the Arabs in Israel would visit a website with information in Arabic about the Holocaust. 58 Percent believe it is necessary to learn about the Holocaust in school.
The Arabic website follows the successful launch of a website in Farsi last year. “In light of the Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism that we are witness to in Arabic countries, we want to offer an alternative source of information to moderates in these countries, to provide them with reliable information about the Shoah,” said Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev.
 Remembrance and Beyond: the Holocaust and the United Nations
Yad Vashem website
Educational Resources for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day
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