Note to Correspondents

The Department of Public Information will screen the documentary film Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald on Wednesday, 28 January, at United Nations Headquarters as part of a week of Holocaust remembrance activities which coincide with the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau German Nazi concentration and extermination camp (1940-1945).  The film showing and discussion will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium.  The film also will be screened this month at 20 United Nations Information Centres around the world.

The United Nations will mark the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust this month with events around the world to help recognize the enduring legacy left by the survivors seven decades after the end of the Second World War.

A new multi-media exhibit on the Holocaust will open in the Visitors Lobby on Monday, 26 January 6 p.m., as part of a week-long series of Holocaust remembrance activities at the United Nations.

"Forbidden Art” — an exhibition on the Holocaust — will open with a formal ceremony on Wednesday, 21 January, at 6 p.m. in Gallery B of the Visitors’ Lobby.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the members of a High-level Panel to advise on the organizational and operational aspects of the proposed Technology Bank and Science, Technology and Innovation Supporting Mechanism dedicated to the least developed countries.

An opening ceremony for an exhibition entitled “The Long Journey” will be held at 6 p.m. on Monday, 24 November, in the Main Gallery of the Visitors’ Lobby.

On 20 October 1943, 17 member nations established the United Nations War Crimes Commission to investigate and record the evidence of war crimes committed during the Second World War.  For more than 70 years, access to those records has been restricted.  They are now open to the public, following the release in July 2014 of a full copy of the archive to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

On 15 October, this year, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon designated Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, as the Senior Official of the United Nations system responsible for coordinating follow-up action for the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples.

The United Nations Academic Impact will launch the J. Michael Adams Conversation series on 21 October, with an inaugural lecture by the well-known Saudi Arabian scientist Hayat Sindi.

On 5 September 2014, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon designated Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, as the Secretary-General for the third International Conference on Financing for Development.