This international event is held on the anniversary of the day the Red Army liberated Auschwitz, and should not be confused with Yom Hashoah, Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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NEW YORK, May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Holocaust survivors, educators, leaders, and historians from around the world will kick off
Liberation75 on
May 4, 2021 at NOON ET with a global moment of sharing the
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#ItStartedWithWords is a digital Holocaust education campaign posting weekly video posts from Holocaust survivors (which already have garnered nearly 4 million views on Facebook) from across the world. Each video features a survivor telling of the moments that led up to the Holocaust; a period of time when they could not have predicted the ease with which their long-time neighbors, teachers, classmates, and colleagues would turn on them, before words of hate turned to acts of violence.
Effi Eitam (Photo: Juda S. Engelmayer/Wikimedia)
For nearly 70 years Yad Vashem, the world-renowned Holocaust museum established in Jerusalem, has bolstered Israel’s claim to act as guardian and interpreter of the lessons of the Nazi genocide that destroyed much of European Jewry during the Second World War.
Before the pandemic, more than a million visitors passed annually through its doors, and the museum was considered an all but mandatory stop for world leaders visiting Israel.
Research by Yad Vashem’s distinguished historians has guided other museums and research institutes around the world in how they understand and present the Holocaust. The museum stages influential conferences for scholars, and produces key texts on the Holocaust.