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Ceremony at UNESCO for International Day of Commemoration to honour the victims of the Holocaust
Duration : 04’38”
January 28th, 2008

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01 :00 :00 :00 Isaac Herzog, Israeli Minister of Social affairs and Welfare and Minister of the Jewish Diaspora, Society, and the Fight Against Anti-Semitism meets Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO

01 :00 :05 :11 Opening of the exhibition Auschwitz: the depth of the abyss

01 :00 :08 :23 Simone Veil, Honorary President of the French Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah

01 :00 :11 :14 Miry Gross, Yad Vashem’s director of relations with French-speaking countries

01 :00 :21 :21 Isaac Herzog, Israeli Minister of Social affairs and Welfare and Patrick de Carolis, France Television's President visit the exhibition

01 :00 :29 :21 Photos taken by SS guards in May and June 1944 and a series of sketches by Zinovii Tolkachev

01 :00 :36 :14 French Army choir performs Hebrew songs

01 :00 :55 :09 Commemoration ceremony: speech (extract) of Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO

01 :01 :25 :19 Isaac Herzog, Israeli Minister of Social affairs and Welfare and Minister of the Jewish Diaspora, Society, and the Fight Against Anti-Semitism

01 :02 :17 :05 Xavier Darcos, French Minister of National Education

01 :02 :37 :00 Simone Veil, Honorary President of the French Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah

01 :03 :29 :18 Rabbi and Cantor Raphael Cohen recites the Jewish prayer for the dead

01 :03 :45 :07 Extract of the film La Résistance face à la Shoah: Quand il fallait sauver les Juifs (the Resistance in face of the Shoah: When Jews had to be saved)

01 :04 :10 :10 Sound byte: David G. Kornbluth, Permanent Delegate of Israel to UNESCO

01 :04 :38 :00 End

Publication Date 29 Jan 2008
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