The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges every member state to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism and to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides.
On this occasion, please find here one of the lessons of Holocaust based on the true story.
Also, on February 1st Lynne Feldman, a Holocaust educator from Yad Vashem, will give a short introduction to the goals of Holocaust education in the 21st century, while Shifra Poupko, a guide from Yad Vashem, will be giving a ‘virtual tour’ of the Novogrudok’s Jewish Resistance Museum. Together, Lynne and Shifra will take you through the Museum and highlight the techniques that make Holocaust history relevant and meaningful for everyone.
It’s a chance for people who have yet to visit the actual site of the greatest and most successful escape from the ghetto in the history of the Holocaust and learn about the Bielski partisans — a Jewish partisan detachment more than 1,000 people strong, 330 women among them.
Stories and survivor testimony will be shared by current JRM guides.
See you on Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 8 p.m. (Minsk), 7 p.m. (Jerusalem), 6 p.m. (Berlin)