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Monday, 28 January 2013 | Conference

From Holocaust Education to the Prevention  of Genocide: What have we learnt from the Past?, Room II, from 3.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.

With the participation of:

• Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO;
• Adama Dieng, United Nations Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide;
• Edward Kissi, Professor at the Department of Africana studies of the University of South Florida (USA/Ghana);
• Dan Michman, Historian, Director of the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem (Israel);
• Karen Pollock, Executive Director of the Holocaust Educational Trust (United Kingdom);
• Samuel Pisar, writer and lawyer, Holocaust survivor, UNESCO Honorary Ambassador, Special Envoy for Holocaust Education.

Conference organized in partnership with the Office of the United Nations Special Advisor for the Prevention of Genocide and with the support of the Permanent Delegation of the Kingdom of Belgium to UNESCO

Monday, 28 January 2013 | Ceremony

Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust,  Room I, 7.30 p.m.

• Screening of the short film Les Justes by Emmanuel Finkiel;
• Speeches:
  - Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO;  
  - Eric de Rothschild, President of the Mémorial de la Shoah (Paris);
  - Nimrod Barkan, Ambassador, Permanent  Delegate of Israel to
    UNESCO;  
  - Vincent Peillon, French Minister of Education;

Guest of honour:

          - Rossen Plevneliev, President of the Republic of Bulgaria;

• Reading of a text written by Jean-Claude Grumberg by Guila Clara Kessous, UNESCO Artist for Peace, and actor Francis Huster;
• Testimony of Serge Klarsfeld, historian and lawyer, President of the association Fils et filles des déportés juifs de France;
• Musical pieces performed by Pascal Amoyel (piano) and Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello);
• Prayers by Adolphe Attia, Officiating Minister

From 28 January to 4 February 2013 | Exhibitions

Resistance and rescue in Denmark - Photographies by Judy Ellis Glickman, Pas Perdus Room

The history of Shoah in Denmark is an exception in European history: 99 % of the Jewish population survived the German occupation, the majority of the Jews of Denmark succeeded in escaping to Sweden with the help of the Danish resistance and numerous citizens of the country. Those who were deported stayed in Theresienstadt and were finally transferred in Sweden before the end of the war. What is more, most of the Jews found their houses and synagogues intact at their return in 1945 because there were no systematic looting organized in Denmark.

This exhibition was prepared at the beginning of 1990s by the photographer Judy Ellis Glickmann and by the founder and director of Humanity in Action, Judith Goldstein, and entrusted to the Mémorial de la Shoah (Paris) to ensure its circulation in Europe. Since then, new research on Denmark and the Holocaust has been published and an updated version of the text was prepared by the Mémorial de la Shoah for the French version.

Rescue: Preserving Humanity during the Holocaust , Miró Halls

This multimedia exhibition presented by the University of Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation, Institute for Visual History and Education consists of five monitors running different reels of testimonies on a loop. Visitors will be guided through the exhibition by a series of panels discussing the theme of each reel – Community Rescue, Diplomats and Rescue, Rescuing Children, Religion and Rescue, and Recognizing Rescue. The testimonies will offer a multiplicity of voices and experiences of rescue during the Holocaust. Stories of survival; of difficult decisions and strategies of how to participate in rescue activities will immerse the audience in the rich history of WWII and provide a tribute to those who participated in rescue activities.

The University of Southern California Shoah Foundation was created in 1994 by Steven Spielberg to collect and safeguard testimonies of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust.

The Rescue 1943
Dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews Foyer

The documentary exhibition of the Archives State Agency of Bulgaria, realized in cooperation with Yad Vashem, Israel, and using also private archives, is structured around several themes: Integration of Jews in the society, Bulgaria’s accession into the Tripartite Pact on March 1st, 1940 and the adoption of the Law for the Protection of the Nation resulting in the deprivation of the 48 000 strong Jewish population of their civil and political rights, the deportation of almost 11 000 Jews from the so called New Territories in Vardar Macedonia and Aegean Thrace and, finally, the strong resistance of the Bulgarian society, members of Parliament, the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Christian Orthodox Church and members of the Clergy, intellectuals. As a result, all 48 000 Jews of the Kingdom of Bulgaria were rescued from deportation to the death camps.