26 January 2006:
(Press Release)

Kofi Annan meets Auschwitz survivors

On 27 January 2006 the Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, will meet a delegation of the International Auschwitz Committee including Auschwitz survivors from Poland, Germany and France, in Zurich, and commemorate with them the 1st “International Holocaust Remembrance Day”, installed by the United Nations in November 2005.
Participants in the meeting will also include young people from several countries who are engaged in holocaust memorial work and in the International Youth Meeting Centre in Oswiecim/Auschwitz: e.g. young trainees of the Volkswagen Coaching company who have worked with young people from Poland for the maintenance of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial site as well as young people from France and Belarus engaged in holocaust education.
“ 27 January, the day of the liberation of Auschwitz, has been proclaimed worldwide day of holocaust remembrance by the United Nations. This date however has to draw our attention also to the world of today: Those who talk about Auschwitz cannot keep silent in view of Rwanda, Srebrenica and Darfour. Therefore this resolution of the United Nations and this meeting with Kofi Annan is very important for us, the survivors of Auschwitz. We consider it a decision and it meeting full of hope”, said Noach Flug, President of the International Auschwitz Committee.

26 January 2006
Christoph Heubner, IAC Vice-President

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