Round Table on Holocaust Remembrance and Public Memorials

Round table discussion on “Holocaust Remembrance and Public Memorials: the Complexities and Challenges of Facing the Past”.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / Side Events
• Video Length: 02:05:55
• Production Date: 2 November 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: CRISTINA GALLACH
• Subject Topical: EDUCATION; HOLOCAUST; MEMORY
• MAMS Id: 1766169
• Parent Id: 1763598

Description

Holocaust experts and scholars from Brazil, Israel, Japan, South Africa, Ukraine and United States discuss the relationship between Holocaust remembrance, public memory, and education in their countries. The event marks the 75th anniversary of the tragedy at Babi Yar and the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938.

Remarks by Cristina Gallach, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information; Volodymyr Yelchenko, Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations, and His Excellency Mr. Mordehai Amihai Bivas, a member of the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations.