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STORY: UN / HOLOCAUST VICTIMS REMEMBRANCE
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 26 JANUARY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
26 JANUARY 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Pan right, minute of silent reflection at General Assembly
3. Wide shot, Secretary-General António Guterres walks up to GA rostrum
4. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“All of us – leaders and citizens – have a responsibility to listen and to learn from what you have to say, and to act on it, by condemning these terrible crimes against our common humanity; by striving to eradicate antisemitism, and all forms of bigotry, hatred and intolerance; and by finding a way forward to a shared, safe, and inclusive future for our human family. And this is particularly important in today’s dangerous and divided world. And a few short months after Hamas’ horrific terror attacks.”
4. Wide shot, Guterres at the rostrum
5. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The antisemitism that fuelled the Holocaust did not start with the Nazis, nor did it end with their defeat. The Holocaust was preceded by thousands of years of discrimination, expulsion, exile and extermination, including by my own country, Portugal. Today, we are witnessing hate spreading at alarming speed. Online, it has moved from the margins to the mainstream. And Holocaust denial and distortion are proliferating. It is up to all of us to defend the truth and to defend our common humanity.”
6. Wide shot, delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Racism and bigotry are a violation of everything we stand for. We are determined to fight it on all its forms. For me, this is a lifelong commitment. For the United Nations, it is a foundational mission. And today it is more important than ever, especially in the wake of the horrific 7 October Hamas attacks that claimed the lives of more than one thousand Israelis and others, injured many more and resulted in the brutal seizing of hostages. Hostages that must be immediately and unconditionally released.”
8. Wide shot, Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan walks up to GA rostrum
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Gilad Erdan, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations:
“From the crimes of the Nazis and their collaborators until the crimes of Hamas and radical Islam. Today, the genocidal ideology of exterminating the Jews has remained the same. Today is not only a day of remembrance. This day was designated to also prevent future acts of genocide. To internalise the lessons of the Holocaust. To never be silent, as silence - in the words of Elie Wiesel - encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. And indifference, not death is the opposite of life.”
10. Wide shot, Holocaust survivors, sisters Edith Tenenbaum Shapiro and Selma Tenenbaum Rossen, sitting down
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Selma Tenenbaum Rossen, Holocaust Survivor:
“I have no memory of life before the war. First came the Russians, then the Germans, then the Russians again. Each time bombs fell. I saw strings hanging from a plane and wondered what they were. I heard a boom. Someone stroked me up and rushed me to the cellar. I was afraid, but this became my normal. I think of myself back then as a little animal that lives in a dangerous forest outside there are animals, and that's the way life is. You just survive or you don't.”
12. Wide shot, musical performance
Addressing the annual ceremony in remembrance of the victims and survivors of the Holocaust, Secretary-General António Guterres today (26 Jan)said, “all of us – leaders and citizens – have a responsibility” to listen to Holocaust survivors, “to learn from what you have to say, and to act on it, by condemning these terrible crimes against our common humanity.”
The Secretary-General warned that “the antisemitism that fuelled the Holocaust did not start with the Nazis, nor did it end with their defeat.”
Today, he said, “we are witnessing hate spreading at alarming speed,” and added that online, “it has moved from the margins to the mainstream.”
Guterres said that it is up to all of us “to defend the truth and to defend our common humanity.”
He said, “racism and bigotry are a violation of everything we stand for” and the United Nations is “determined to fight it on all its forms.”
Today, the Secretary-General said, “it is more important than ever, especially in the wake of the horrific 7 October Hamas attacks that claimed the lives of more than one thousand Israelis and others, injured many more and resulted in the brutal seizing of hostages.”
He called for hostages to be “immediately and unconditionally released.”
Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan, in his address to the ceremony, said, “from the crimes of the Nazis and their collaborators until the crimes of Hamas and radical Islam. Today, the genocidal ideology of exterminating the Jews has remained the same. Today is not only a day of remembrance. This day was designated to also prevent future acts of genocide. To internalise the lessons of the Holocaust. To never be silent.”
Holocaust Survivor Selma Tenenbaum Rossen said, “I have no memory of life before the war. First came the Russians, then the Germans, then the Russians again. Each time bombs fell. I saw strings hanging from a plane and wondered what they were. I heard a boom. Someone stroked me up and rushed me to the cellar. I was afraid, but this became my normal. I think of myself back then as a little animal that lives in a dangerous forest outside there are animals, and that's the way life is. You just survive or you don't.”
Sisters Edith Tenenbaum Shapiro and Selma Tenenbaum Rossen, Born in Zlaclov, Poland, Edith was six and Selma was four when the Second World War began. Through hiding in cellars, in bunkers, in attics, and being sheltered by rescuers, Edith, Selma and their parents survived. Today Edith is a retired psychiatrist, and Selma, a retired engineer.
