Opening of Exhibit Auschwitz - A Place on Earth: The Auschwitz Album

Melissa Fleming (right), Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications meets with Isaac Herzog, President of the State of Israel, at the opening of the exhibit "Auschwitz - A Place on Earth: The Auschwitz Album" at UN Headquarters.

This exhibition depicts the only known visual documentation - The Auschwitz Album - of the process leading to the mass murder perpetrated by the Nazis at Auschwitz Birkenau. The Auschwitz Album is a source of invaluable evidence, a silent and powerful rebuke against the people who created and ran the death camps.

80 years after the Holocaust ended, Holocaust remembrance remains an imperative: a haunting reminder of what happens when prejudice is left unchallenged, and dignity and rights destroyed. Through the testimony of survivors and photographs, the exhibition provides an overview of the Holocaust, the antisemitism and other factors that facilitated it and the terrible atrocities perpetrated against victims of the Nazis and their racist collaborators. The exhibition illustrates the courage of victims to resist dehumanization.