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![]() Manfred Schmitz-Berg, former judge at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court, will present his book "" Wieder gut gemacht? Die Geschichte der Wiedergutmachung seit 1945".The event is in German. The event will take place on Thursday 2 February at 6:00PM CET in the film at the Bundesarchiv Koblenz. Read more and registerĭas Bundesarchiv in Germany and the Freundschaftskreis Koblenz-Petah Tikva invite you to a joint event to commemorate the liberation of Auschwitz. Examples of prominent Jews, of elderly people, of children and of entire families will be demonstrated. In this talk Racheli Kreisberg will present SWIGGI, the Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Memorial as well as the deportation maps of the Viennese and Dutch Jews. Holocaust victims are commemorated via the Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Memorial. SWIGGI focuses on the Galician towns Skala Podolska and Nadworna, nowadays in the Ukraine, (Ghetto) Lodz and its 250,000 Jewish inhabitants, Vienna, and the life before the war as well as the fate of its 65,000 transported Jews, the Netherlands and the deportation of its 104,000 Jews. SWIGGI is an innovative platform which assists people to identify the (exact location of) 19th and 20th century houses of their family members. Over the course of the last 25 years, Racheli Kreisberg’s genealogy research led to the development of the Simon Wiesenthal Genealogy Geolocation Initiative (SWIGGI). The Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien in Austria organises a talk on Thursday 26 January at the insitute in Vienna: Racheli Kreisberg: Simon Wiesenthal's Legacy. A brand new, intuitive data entry tool complete with explanatory texts that are easy to understand has now been developed for volunteers to use. ![]() It only takes a few minutes to type out the information from one card. Taking part is very easy: participants transcribe the names of concentration camp prisoners from the original documents. By working on the challenge, they will be helping to build the world’s largest digital memorial to the victims and survivors of Nazism. Volunteers all over the world can participate in the #everynamecounts challenge between January 23 and 29 as a form of active remembrance of the victims of Nazi persecution. The goal of the online challenge is to type out information about former prisoners of the Stutthof concentration camp from 30,000 prisoner cards. The Arolsen Archives are announcing a new #everynamecounts challenge to take place on and around International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The opening event will be broadcast live via Yad Vashem's website and Facebook Page (via UNTV). Empty pages at the end of the Book leave room for over a million names of Holocaust victims still to be recovered. ![]() The names in the Book have been meticulously gathered over the past 70 years by Yad Vashem from a range of sources, including Pages of Testimony. The new " Book of Names of Holocaust Victims" is a monumental installation (2 meters high, 8 meters long and a meter deep) – a literal book with tangible, searchable pages containing the alphabetically arranged names of 4,800,000 Jewish men, women and children murdered by the Nazi Germans and their collaborators during the Holocaust. A very special event is the “Book of Names” opening at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 26 January 2023. You can find more resources on this webpage. On 24 January, a new exhibition was opened in the Bundestag in Berlin, " Sixteen Objects from Yad Vashem," the first of its kind in which all the items included are connected to one specific country. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel has several resources that will help to commemorate. To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2023, we’ve gathered some of these events to give an impression of how to commemorate this day. The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure has 27 partner institutions that commemorate this day with specific events and activities, appropriate for the country they are located in. The UN designated 27 January (the liberation of Auschwitz) as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In 2005, the United Nations established an international day of commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
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