Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
On 27 January, in commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Permanent Delegate of Lithuania to UNESCO Ambassador Irena Vaisvilaite participated in a screening of the feature documentary “Who Will Write Our History” at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
UNESCO Director- General Audrey Azoulay referred to the participants of the event to overcome hate ideologies and contribute to a culture of Peace. In addition, Stephen Smith, UNESCO Chair for Genocide Education has likewise spoke at the movie’s premier.
After the viewing, there was a discussion with the film director Roberta Grossman and the producer Nancy Spielberg, along with a historian Samuel D. Kassow, by whose book this documentary movie was created. It tells the story of the Warsaw ghetto clandestine group Oyneg Shabes, formed by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and consisting of scientists, journalists and community leaders. This group has assembled and preserved one of the most significant Holocaust archives, reflecting the history of this ghetto and the fate of the Polish Jews.
In commemoration of the aforementioned Remembrance Day, the movie has been screened in over 350 locations in 55 countries. To immortalize the 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz Concentration and Extermination Camp, the UN General Assembly in 2005 has proclaimed January 27 as the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of Holocaust.
