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► The Anguish of Liberation and the Return to Life: The Central Theme for Holocaust Remembrance Day 2005
► Inauguration of the New Museum at Yad Vashem
► The Online Names Database:
Global Interest Exceeds All Expectations
► Education - Hearing It From the Source: Survivor Testimony in Holocaust Education
► Undisputed Heroes: Leonid Bernstein: The Story of a Jewish Fighter
► New Publications- Transmitting Memory: Guarded by Angels
► News: Auschwitz Exhibition
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   ► Generation to Generation
   ►Events January – March 2005
   ► Highlights of Yad Vashem’s Activities in 2004
   ► Recent Visits to Yad Vashem
   ► German Righteous Visit Yad Vashem
   ► Alfred Paul Ernst Freiherr von Oppenheim
► Torchlighters 2005

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On 24 January, an exhibition entitled “Auschwitz—the Depth of the Abyss” opened in the UN Headquarters, three days before the official 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps in Europe. The exhibit, which ran until 11 March, was curated by Yad Vashem, and sponsored by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Some 100,000-150,000 people visited the exhibition, which comprised pictures from The Auschwitz Album—a visual record of the process of mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau—and sketches by Jewish artist Zinovii Tolkatchev, a soldier in the Red Army who was present at the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau on 27 January 1945.

In his remarks at the opening ceremony, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan noted the historic session on the Holocaust held earlier that day, and thanked Yad Vashem for helping “bring the images to us.” The pictures in the exhibit, he said “tell the story in a way that no words can,” and stressed the world’s obligation to “face up to what happened in the camps, and what led to their existence.”

Senior Art Curator Yehudit Shendar shows the Auschwitz Exhibition to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan


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