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Note to Correspondents


Note No. 6333
Three exhibitions on the Holocaust will open to the public in the Main Gallery of the Visitors Lobby, as part of a week-long series of Holocaust remembrance activities at the United Nations. The International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust is 27 January and the theme of this year’s observance is “Children and the Holocaust”.
Note No. 6334
More than 350 New York metropolitan area high school students will gather at United Nations Headquarters on 23 January 2012 to discuss their experiences with IWitness, the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Institute’s new online educational resource that gives teachers and students access to the video testimonies of more than 1,000 Holocaust eyewitnesses from the Institute’s archive of nearly 52,000 testimonies.
Note No. 6332
The United Nations will remember the children who perished during the Holocaust with a week of events culminating in a memorial ceremony to be held in the General Assembly Hall in New York on 27 January. The global network of United Nations information centres is also playing its part in remembering these children with film screenings, educational programmes and exhibits.
Note No. 6328
On 9 November, the United Nations Department of Public Information, in partnership with the International Bar Association, will organize a roundtable discussion entitled, “Justice and Accountability after the Holocaust”, to examine the failure of the judiciary in Germany to safeguard the rights of individuals under Nazi rule and the responsibility of States and the courts today to protect their populations.