![]() ![]() The memorial ceremony will be hosted by Melissa Fleming, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications. Cantor Nissim Saal will recite the memorial prayer. Other musicians include Shoshana Shattenkirk, and Professor Renée Jolles who will perform a piece for violin specially composed by Victoria Bond for the 2023 Holocaust memorial ceremony. Mr. Shaham will perform on a “Violin of Hope”. Speakers include Jacques Grishaver, Holocaust survivor and Chair of the Netherlands Auschwitz Committee Professor Ethel Brooks, Roma and Sinti scholar and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, Professor Karen Frostig and Michael Shaham. Renowned Holocaust scholar Professor Debórah Dwork will deliver the keynote address. Speakers include the United Nations Secretary-General, the President of the seventy-seventh session of the General Assembly, the Permanent Representative of Israel and a representative from the United States Mission to the United Nations. The theme, “Home and Belonging”, highlights the multidimensional human needs of victims of atrocity crimes and the dangers of hate speech, antisemitism, Holocaust distortion and denial, and prejudice. The violence of exclusion began with disinformation and hate speech that sought to normalize systemic injustice, discrimination and marginalization, and ended with genocidal killing. Victims of the Holocaust had their homes, their nationalities, and sense of belonging ripped from them by the Nazis and their racist collaborators. ![]() The memorial is organized by the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme of the United Nations Department of Global Communications. The event will be attended by members of the diplomatic corps, Holocaust survivors and their families, veterans, civil society organizations and the general public. EST in the General Assembly Hall, United Nations Headquarters, New York. ![]() The memorial ceremony will be held from 11 a.m. On Friday, 27 January, the United Nations will observe the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust under the theme “Home and Belonging”. ![]()
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