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International Holocaust Commemoration Day
 
January 28, 2013
International Holocaust Commemoration Day

International Holocaust Commemoration Day

 

On January 28th, Charge Anne Hall joined the Lithuanian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, the head of the Lithuania Jewish Community, and the German Ambassador to Lithuania, in marking the U.N.-established International Holocaust Commemoration Day (which falls every year since 2005 on January 27th). The Jewish Information and Cultural Center, an organization that provides educational materials and sponsors exhibits related to Lithuania’s rich Jewish past, as well as the dark days of the Holocaust in Lithuania, hosted the event.  
This year’s commemoration was marked by the opening of a photography exhibit by students at the Vilnius Academy of Arts of old synagogues in Belarus (which used to be part of the old Grand Duchy of Lithuania).  Participants then were able to view an exhibit in the cellar that portrayed a hiding place for Jews during the Holocaust, called a “Malina.”  Finally, a short documentary about the Stutthoff Concentration Camp in Poland (where many Jewish Lithuanian women were sent) was shown, in a screening room built in the cellar, which is also used by the Center for discussion sessions with various school groups.

On January 28th, Charge Anne Hall joined the Lithuanian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, the head of the Lithuania Jewish Community, and the German Ambassador to Lithuania, in marking the U.N.-established International Holocaust Commemoration Day (which falls every year since 2005 on January 27th). The Jewish Information and Cultural Center, an organization that provides educational materials and sponsors exhibits related to Lithuania’s rich Jewish past, as well as the dark days of the Holocaust in Lithuania, hosted the event.  

This year’s commemoration was marked by the opening of a photography exhibit by students at the Vilnius Academy of Arts of old synagogues in Belarus (which used to be part of the old Grand Duchy of Lithuania).  Participants then were able to view an exhibit in the cellar that portrayed a hiding place for Jews during the Holocaust, called a “Malina.”  Finally, a short documentary about the Stutthoff Concentration Camp in Poland (where many Jewish Lithuanian women were sent) was shown, in a screening room built in the cellar, which is also used by the Center for discussion sessions with various school groups.

 

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