The New York Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is in the course of preparing the event of this kind. Currently this institution hosts the exhibition “Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away”.
"Our museum is deeply honored to partner with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation on the 75th commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz by serving as the venue for Holocaust survivors and their families in the New York area to gather together to view this historic event via livestream," said Jack Kliger, Museum President & CEO.
"In a world of rising intolerance, antisemitism, and Holocaust denial, it is crucial for the world to come together to remember and to educate younger generations," said Kliger.
“It is an extremely precious initiative, in particular in the context of our ongoing cooperation connected with the exhibition about Auschwitz presented by the New York Museum”, said Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński, Director of the Auschwitz Memorial.
“We are getting similar requests from other places as well. So, I would like to encourage everybody to organize such events on January 27, but even more to make sure that survivors residing in the neighbourhood are invited to them, as they are often unable – for example due to their health condition – to come to the Auschwitz Memorial. Prepare special invitations for them, do everything that is possible to help them come to your institution and back home safe, in order for them to follow commemorative events together with their local community, surrounded by their near and dear ones and friends”, Piotr Cywiński called.
Each institution or organization which is going to prepare an event of this kind can contact us by e-mail at press[at]Auschwitz.org and provide their name, location and contact details. We will publish this information on the 75.auschwitz.org website in order to help survivors find and reach the nearest place where the broadcast will be organized.
The year 2020 will be special due to two anniversaries related to the memory: The 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Stockholm Declaration, under which the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research was established, today the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance; and the 15th anniversary of the adoption of 27 January as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day by the United Nations General Assembly. Both events symbolically took place on 27 January, on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Consequently, the major international commemoration event will be organized at the Auschwitz Memorial.
The President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, has assumed honorary patronage over the the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz. Further information on this event will be published on the website: 75.auschwitz.org.