The 30-minute gathering featured Museum Director Sara Bloomfield and Maziar Bahari, the 2020 Elie Wiesel Award recipient. The Museum presents the award at the annual National Tribute Dinner in the spring in Washington, DC. The Elie Wiesel Award recognizes internationally prominent individuals whose actions have advanced the Museum’s vision of a world where people confront hatred, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity. The program closed with an opportunity for each one of us to make a personal pledge to safeguard the survivors’ legacy.Įlie Wiesel Award and National Tribute Dinner This digital event featured Holocaust survivors’ tributes to family members they lost, a stirring message from Benjamin Ferencz (the last living Nuremberg prosecutor), and timeless words from the late Elie Wiesel. Watch on Youtube 2020 Days of Remembrance Commemoration
Blinken, who has spoken of the importance of Holocaust remembrance and the personal impact of his family’s experience. The commemoration featured remarks from US Secretary of State Antony J. Watch on Youtube 2021 Days of Remembrance Commemoration The event featured survivors telling their stories, and victims’ accounts presented through photographs and historical film footage from the Museum’s collection, with introductory reflections from Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat, chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Watch 2022 Days of Remembrance Commemoration As we lead the nation in remembering the six million Jews who were murdered, honoring the survivors, paying tribute to the rescuers, and celebrating the liberators, we are reminded of the power of their history to inspire people everywhere to confront antisemitism, all forms of group-targeted hate, and genocide. 2023 National Days of Remembrance Commemorationįor the first time since 2019, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the national commemoration will take place at the US Capitol-on Thursday, April 20, 2023, at 10:30 a.m. Since 1982, the Museum has organized and led the national Days of Remembrance ceremony in the US Capitol with Holocaust survivors, liberators, members of Congress, White House officials, the diplomatic corps, and community leaders in attendance. Days of Remembrance Commemoration Ceremony
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