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Events at the UN on the international Day in memory of the victims of the Holocaust

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United Nations, New York, 26 January 2010 -  This evening, the Secretary-General will speak at the opening of an exhibit at the UN Secretariat building's Visitor's Lobby on the Auschwitz-Birkenau blueprints. That exhibit was curated and produced by Yad Vashem, and is part of the UN's remembrance of the Holocaust this year.

Wednesday is Holocaust Remembrance Day, and the theme of this year's commemoration at UN offices around the world is the legacy of survival. There will be a message from the Secretary-General concerning all the people  most of them Jews, but also including groups like the Roma and Sinti  who suffered the horrors of the ghettos and Nazi death camps and yet somehow survived.
 
At 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, there will be a commemorative event at the General Assembly Hall, with keynote remarks by a Holocaust survivor, Nechama Tec; a statement by Andrzej Mirga, a Senior Adviser on Roma Sinti Issues; and musical performances by the Nürnberg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jerusalem Oratorio Chamber Choir and the Bayreuth Zamir Chorale.

View the message from the Secretary-General
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0iY76b4Q7w

The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme website:
http://www.un.org/holocaustremembrance/

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