3 March 2025 - Film Screening and Discussion: Here Lived: The Stolpersteine Story
Here Lived through tracing the story of the Stolpersteine (stumbling stones), focuses on the families impacted by the Nazis during the Second World War and the generational trauma that atrocity precipitates. The screening of the documentary will be followed by a panel discussion with producer and director Jane Wells, historian Emile Schrijver and producer Ulrika Citron.
2 March 2025 - Film Screening and Discussion: Bau, Artist at War
Bau, Artist at War is based on the true love story of Joseph and Rebecca Bau, whose wedding took place in the Plaszow concentration camp during the Second World War. The screening will be followed by a conversation with writer/producer Deborah Smerecnik and Joseph Bau’s daughters Clila and Hadasa Bau, moderated by Daniel S. Mariaschin.
29 January 2025 - Film Screening and Discussion: UnBroken
The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme together with the Center for Jewish History, will host the screening of the documentary UnBroken, followed by a panel discussion with the film's director, producer, and writer Beth Lane and her mother, Holocaust survivor, Ginger Lane, whose story of survival is featured in the film.
23 January 2025 - Book Launch and Discussion with Professor Debórah Dwork, Author of "Saints and Liars"
Saints and Liars tells the stories of American aid workers during the Holocaust and, exploring their experiences, illuminates the moral questions they encountered, the devastating decisions they had to make, and the role of unpredictable and irrational factors on the ground, at a particular moment, in shaping individual fates.
27 January 2025 - United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony
The United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony in observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust takes place on 27 January 2025, the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on 27 January 1945.
21 November 2024 - Virtual Discussion "Persecution and Resistance: LGBTIQ+ People Under Nazi Rule"
The virtual panel discussion focuses on the persecution of LGBTIQ+ people from 1933-1945 under Nazi rule and occupation. Responses and resistance, and the fight for recognition after the end of the Holocaust by LGBTIQ+ survivors, will be considered.
7 November 2024 - Virtual Discussion “Courage and Compassion: Jewish Resistance in Nazi-occupied Belgium”
The discussion considers the wide range of acts of resistance, rescue and aid organized through or by the Jewish community in Nazi-occupied Belgium.
A Story Never Finished: The Legacy of Anne Frank
12 June 2024 marked the 95th year since Anne Frank was born. On Friday, 14 June 2024, the United Nations honoured Anne Frank's legacy at a special event held next to the Anne Frank tree in the garden of United Nations Headquarters, New York.
18 June 2024 - Virtual discussion "Photography as Resistance During the Holocaust"
Join our online discussion led by an esteemed panel who will speak about Jewish photographers - some professional, some amateur - who resisted Nazi dehumanization during the Holocaust by documenting the horrific actions of the Nazis and their collaborators.
27 February 2024 - Book talk “The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust"
Join co-authors Elizabeth White and Joanna Sliwa as they discuss how they pieced together Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg's history and ask why so little is known about this unrecognized hero.
20 September 2023 - Virtual discussion: “Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews and the Holocaust”
Virtual discussion “Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews and the Holocaust” with award-winning author, Ari Joskowicz, Professor Ethel Brooks, Founder of the field of Critical Romani Studies, and Chair of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University, and Raz Segal, Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide, Stockton University.
Special Recording | A Conversation Across Three Generations
The “In Conversation” series brings Holocaust survivors and their families together to talk about family and memory, home and belonging, and what it means to carry the history of the Holocaust so intimately.
Exhibition "Stories of Survival and Remembrance - A Call to Action for Genocide Prevention"
The exhibition features the reflections of survivors of four atrocity crimes - the Holocaust, the genocide and related atrocities in Cambodia, the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Exhibition “Yad Vashem Book of Names of Holocaust Victims” at United Nations Headquarters
An extraordinary exhibition at United Nations Headquarters in New York contains over 4,8 million names, places of birth and death of the victims of the Holocaust, and stands as a silent and potent reminder of the danger of antisemitism and every form of prejudice and hatred.
2023 theme for Holocaust remembrance and education: "Home and belonging"
The theme “Home and Belonging” guides United Nations Holocaust remembrance and education in 2023. It highlights the humanity of the Holocaust victims and survivors, who had their home and sense of belonging ripped from them by the perpetrators of the Holocaust.