Forty diplomats will participate in tomorrow’s symposium “Holocaust Denial: Paving the Way to Genocide” at Yad Vashem.Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate will open the symposium, and Prof. David Bankier, Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research will chair. Academic Advisor to Yad Vashem Prof. Yehuda Bauer, President of MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute)Yigal Carmon, and Holocaust survivor Rita Weiss, many of whose relatives were killed in the Holocaust, will speak.
This will be followed by a discussion with the diplomatic corps.
Chairman of the Council Joseph (Tommy) Lapid will offer concluding
remarks.
Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate Avner Shalev said, “Every year,
nearly 20,000 people from Muslim countries, including Iran, visit the
Yad Vashem website. We have therefore decided to translate material on
the website into Arabic and Farsi, including information on the
Holocaust. In addition Yad Vashem is producing an Arabic audio guide
for the Holocaust History Museum.”
Yad Vashem is following with increasing concern Iran’s continued
Holocaust denial, and particularly its latest attempt to paint its
extremist agenda with a scholarly brush. For this reason, the Chairman
of the Directorate of Yad Vashem decided to hold this special symposium
whose goal is to motivate the international community to act against
this alarming campaign.
The event will take place at 10:00 in the International School for
Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem. Prof. Bauer and Carmon’s remarks will
be available on webcast and podcast at www.yadvashem.org following the
symposium.
Ambassadors and representatives from 40 countries will attend
tomorrow’s event: The United States, Uzbekistan, Austria, Uruguay,
Ireland, El Salvador, Ecuador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Bosnia, Belgium,
Belarus, Hungary, Greece, Moldova, Norway, Czech Republic, Columbia,
Costa Rica, Cameroon, Croatia, Sweden, Italy, Angola, Georgia, Germany,
the EU, Ivory Coast, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Slovakia, Spain,
Poland, Portugal, Panama, France, Romania and Russia.
Watch videos from the conference:
http://www1.yadvashem.org/about_holocaust/index_about_holocaust_video.html
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