Thursday 26 January 2017, from 2.30 p.m., UNESCO Paris

Round table | Exhibition Opening | Ceremony

Programme preview


EXHIBITION OPENING| 2.30 p.m., Miró Rooms
Archeologia presented by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

In the presence of Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO and Mr Piotr Cywinski, Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (Poland).
 
The exhibition presents a selection of the 16,000 personal items belonging to mostly Jewish victims, discovered in 1967 during archaeological works carried out around the gas chambers and crematorium III of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. This exceptional collection features the last remaining personal objects of the victims before their assassination, which were lost for half a century and recently rediscovered stored in 48 cardboard boxes at the Polish Academy of Sciences.

This exhibition marks the first display outside the Museum of this unique and precious collection of lost artefacts.

The Exhibition will be presented from 26 January to 10 February 2017. Open access from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. weekdays, upon presentation of ID.
 

ROUND TABLE | 3.00 p.m., Room XI
“Educating for a Better Future: The Role of Historic Sites and Museums in Holocaust Education”

Round table moderated by Mr Jean-Yves Potel, historian, with the participation of:

• Ms Soo Hyang Choi, Director, Division for Inclusion, Peace and Sustainable Development, UNESCO
• Mr Serge Klarsfeld, UNESCO Honorary Ambassador and Special Envoy for Education about the History of the Holocaust and for the Prevention of Genocide
• Mr Piotr Cywiński, Director, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (Poland)
• Mr Jacques Fredj, Director, Shoah Memorial (France)
• Ms Dorit Novak, Director General, Yad Vashem (Israel)
• Ms Agnès Sajaloli, Director, Memorial Camp Rivesaltes (France)

Live interpretation in French and English will be provided
 

CEREMONY | 7.00 p.m., Room II
10th Ceremony dedicated to the Memory of the Holocaust Victims

In the presence of Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, Mr Eric Rothschild, President of the Shoah Memorial and H. E. Mr Carmel Shama Hacohen, Ambassador, Permanent Delegate of Israel to UNESCO.
 
Testimony | Mr Raphaël Esrail, President of the Union of Deportees to Auschwitz
 
Concert | Ms Martha Argerich, Pianist, Mr Ivry Gitlis, Violinist, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, and Ms Anne-Catherine Dutoit, Narrator (excerpts of Elie Wiesel)
 
 
 
EVENTS ORGANIZED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH the Shoah Memorial and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.
 
WITH THE SUPPORT OF the Permanent Delegation of France to UNESCO, the Permanent Delegation of Monaco to UNESCO and Mr Metin Arditi, UNESCO Special Envoy for Intercultural Dialogue.
 
MORE INFORMATION ON the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust on http://on.unesco.org/27012017-en