29 January 2007

United Nations:
Programme of International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
29th January 2007

Salle des Assemblées, Palais des Nations, Geneva
Monday, 29 January 2007

4:30 p.m.
Opening of event

Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, welcomes the participants and requests a minute of silence in honour of the victims of the Holocaust

Message of the Secretary-General

Remarks by Director-General Sergei Ordzhonikidze

Remarks by Ambassador Itzhak Levanon, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations Office at Geneva

Keynote address by Professor Irwin Cotler, Holocaust Scholar

Remarks by Mrs. Ruth Fayon, Holocaust Survivor

Testimony from two youngsters from the International Auschwitz Committee

5:40 p.m.
Live videoconference link with the ceremony at United Nations Headquarters in New York

Address by Madame Simone Veil, President of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.

6:00 p.m.
Closing Remarks by the Director-General

The programme will also include musical interludes

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