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UN CHRONICLE: The Holocaust: Remembrance and Beyond HA-24-1-06

Headquarters at the United Nations Department of Public Information will hold the first observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust on 27 January 2006, the date in 1945 when the largest Nazi death camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland) was liberated by Soviet troops.  On 1 November 2005, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution A/Res/60/7 Commemorating the 60^th Anniversary of the end of the Second World War designated 27 January as an annual International Day in commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust.

Watch a live web cast of the memorial ceremony at United Nations 10:30 am (EST). http://www.un.org/webcast/

For further information on events, please visit:                            
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/note5989.doc.htm

Below are UN Chronicle articles on the Holocaust, its remembrance, as well as links to related UN websites on these issues.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
THE HOLOCAUST: REMEMBRANCE AND BEYOND                                       

Holocaust Remembrance:  A Resolution Unfolds — The World Remembers (Issue  4, 2005)                                                                       
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2005/issue4/0405p04.html

The Holocaust and the Nuremberg Trials (Issue 4, 2005)                     
By Benjamin B. Ferencz, a former chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials  
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2005/issue4/0405p03.html

Unlearning Intolerance: Critical Perspectives in Combating Genocide (Issue 4, 2005)                                                                       
By Sally Bolton                                                            
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2005/issue4/0405p02.html

‘Terror in the Soul’: Remembering Auschwitz (Issue 1, 2005)                
By Tom Luke                                                                
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2005/issue1/0105p32.html

Appreciation: Meanwhile about Tom Luke(Issue 1, 2005)                      
By Shashi Tharoor
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2005/issue1/0105p34.html

The Secretary-General: “Jews everywhere must feel that the United Nations is their home too.” (WebArticle June, 2004)                               
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2004/webArticles/062104_sg_remarks2.asp

 'The Tribute Of Power To Reason': The Lessons From Nuremberg (Issue 2, 1999)                                                                          
 By Henry T. King Jr., a former chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials   
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/1999/issue2/0299p61.htm

 LINKS TO RELATED RESOURCES                                                    

 Message of the Secretary-General - Remembrance and Beyond             
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2006/webArticles/012706_HC.html

 United Nations Holocaust Remembrance Week                             
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2006/webArticles/012306_HC.html

 28th Special Session of the General Assembly                          
http://www.un.org/ga/28special/

 GA Resolution : Holocaust Remembrance                                 
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/holocaust/N0548796.pdf

 Remembrance and Beyond - UN Cyberschoolbus
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/holocaust/index.asp

Yad Vashem
http://www.yadvashem.org/

Official Site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Oświęcim, Poland                                                               
http://www.auschwitz-muzeum.oswiecim.pl/html/eng/start/index.php

Holocaust Timeline - UN Cyberschoolbus
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/holocaust/timeline.asp

Unlearning Intolerance Seminar Series - UN                            

http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2005/webArticles/un_seminars.html

Curriculum on Racial Discrimination - UN Cyberschoolbus
http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/discrim/race.asp

Secretary-General Kofi Annan's remarks at Holocaust Memorial, Jerusalem                                                                      
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2005/sgsm9762.doc.htm

Secretary-General Kofi Annan's opening remarks at seminar on anti-Semitism                                                                  
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/sgsm9375.doc.htm

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