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Holocaust Remembrance Week opens Victory Day event program

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Holocaust Remembrance Week opens Victory Day event program


20.01.2020

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Holocaust Remembrance Week opens in Russia, TASS reports. It starts on Monday, January 20 for the sixth time in a row. This year, Remembrance Week opens a program of events dedicated to the Victory Day. The organizer of the action is the Russian Jewish Congress with the participation of the Moscow administration and the Federal Agency for Nationalities.

Memorial, cultural and educational events will unite almost 60 cities. Veterans, diplomats, public figures, politicians, high school and university students are going to take part in them.

The Keepers of Memory prize presentation will become the key event of Remembrance Week. The award will be given to outstanding people who make a significant contribution to the preservation of the memory of the Holocaust. The ceremony will be held for a second time.

The events of Remembrance Week began the day before. On January 19, a performance on the tragic events of WWII took place in Moscow. The Right to Life play tells the story of teacher, writer and doctor Janusz Korczak, who headed the Jewish Orphan’s House in Warsaw. Korczak refused the chance to be rescued from the ghetto and followed his wards to a gas chamber. The performance was staged by students from several Moscow schools.

Russian State University for the Humanities hosts the conference called Holocaust: Memory and Warning. The Holocaust: Annihilation, Liberation, Salvation exhibition is located on Nikolskaya Street. It is dedicated to the role of the Red Army in saving the Jews of Europe, the history of Russian holy men around the world and the preservation of Holocaust victims’ memory. The exposition features letters, diaries, memoirs, stories about the fate of the liberators and the prisoners they saved.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, to which Remembrance Week is timed, is celebrated on January 27. It is dedicated to the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp by soldiers of the Red Army.

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