From 22 January to 23 February 2024 will be held an exhibition entitled “Fighting for the Whole World" – Lower Saxony under Nazi Rule at the Visitors' Lobby, United Nations Headquarters. This exhibition traces how events unfolded from 1933 to 1945 in what is today’s state of Lower Saxony, Germany. How the Nazi regime shaped society in Lower Saxony to reflect Nazi ideology, the state-sanctioned crimes, state-fomented violence and intimidation, and responses to the actions of the state and its agents, reflects the experience across Germany and in occupied territories. A closer look at Lower Saxony illuminates the larger history of the Holocaust and expands our knowledge and awareness of the experiences of all who were caught up in the history.
On Tuesday, 27 February 2024 will be held a Book Talk entitled “The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust" - 1:00 p.m. EST at UN Bookshop, United Nations Headquarters. Jewish mathematician Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg operated in Lublin, headquarters of Aktion Reinhard, the SS operation that murdered 1.7 million Jews in occupied Poland. Masquerading as a Polish aristocrat, the “Countess” persuaded SS officials to release thousands of Poles from Majdanek concentration camp. She secured permission to deliver food and medicine for thousands more inmates, and she smuggled supplies and messages to incarcerated resistance fighters. Incredibly, she eluded detection, survived the war, and emigrated to the United States. Join co-authors Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa as they discuss how they pieced together Dr. Mehlberg's history and ask why so little about this unrecognized hero is known by the broader public. Elizabeth B. White is the former Research Director for the Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Joanna Sliwa is the historian at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
COMMEMORATION AT UNESCO
Concert and official ceremony start at 6 p.m. in Room I, UNESCO Paris. Doors open 5 p.m. Entrance from Avenue de Suffren.
In 2024, UNESCO will mark the International Day with a series of events organized at UNESCO Headquarters, commemorating the memory of millions of victims of the Holocaust and reflecting on the universal legacy of this genocide through music, art and survivor testimonies.
The 2024 commemoration is organized in partnership with the Foundation "Institute of Concentrationary Music Literature", the USC Shoah Foundation and the Shoah Memorial. The events are generously supported by the Permanent Delegations of Belgium, Germany, Italy and Monaco to UNESCO and the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah.
UNESCO also acknowledges the valuable support from the Montreal Holocaust Museum and "We are the tree of life" association.
Thursday 25 January 2024, 6 p.m. - 7 p.m.
UNESCO Paris, Room I, doors open at 5.15 p.m. Early arrival is advised.
To commemorate the victims and survivors of the Holocaust, UNESCO will host a world premiere of a special concert reviving music from the concentration camps and ghettos. Italian composer and conductor Francesco Lotoro spent years recovering compositions created and played under Nazi persecution - a powerful reminder of the endurance of the human spirit in the face of unimaginable horrors. At the concert, his orchestra will bring these melodies to life on stage for the first time since World War II, coupled with survivors’ testimonies. The ceremony will also include traditional Jewish prayers in the memory of Holocaust victims, including a recital of Kol Nidre (All Vows) on a violin rescued from the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and Kaddish, performed by the opera singer David Serero.
- In the presence of: Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director-General
- Francois Heilbronn, Vice-President of the Shoah Memoria
- Charlotte Knobloch, World Jewish Congress Holocaust Memory Commissioner and President of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria
"Blue skies": exhibition reflecting on collective trauma and remembrance
From 23 January to 9 February 2024, Monday to Friday from 9 to 5.30 p.m.,
UNESCO Paris, Pas Perdus Hall
The multimedia exhibition “Blue Skies” by Belgian artist Anton Kusters is a striking reflection on collective trauma and remembrance. Kusters spent 6 years photographing empty skies above Nazi concentration and extermination camps across Europe - locations where millions were killed, yet little physical evidence remains today. Each of his 1078 blue sky images, stamped with GPS coordinates and victim numbers and accompanied by a video installation and a sound piece by Ruben Samama, explores how we witness, process pain and choose to remember almost 80 years after the liberation of the last camp. The Blue Skies Project is curated by Monica Allende.
CAMPAIGN MATERIALS
- Statement from President Joe Biden on International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2024
- Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 - House of Lords Library
- International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2024: The fragility of freedom - European Parliament Think Tank
- Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day 2024 - Yad Vashem
- About the Holocaust Remembrance Day and Yom ha Shoah - Jüdisches Museum Berlin.
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