France - UNESCO to organize major event on International Holocaust Day

For the first time, UNESCO, the Paris-based UN agency for education and culture, will co-organize at the end of this month a major event in the framework of the annual commemoration of International Holocaust Day.

The event, on January 27, will be coordinated with the Israeli delegation to UNESCO.

The ceremony, under the patronage of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Israeli President Shimon Peres, will be attended by several personalities, including UNESCO Director General Koichiro Matsuura, Simone Veil, honorary president of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah and Itzhak Herzog, Israel’s Minister for Social Affairs.

At this occasion, French television station France 2 will present the premiere of the film "Resistance. When it was necessary to save the Jews?"

An exhibition showing pictures taken by SS in the Auschwitz death camp in May or June 1944 will be opened to the public.

Source: www.ejpress.org

Date: Jan 6, 2007

By Joseph Byron

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