Sixty-one Years After Liberation of Auschwitz, U.N. Marks Holocaust
Sixty-one Years After Liberation of Auschwitz, U.N. Marks Holocaust
By Chanan Tigay
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 29 (JTA) — Sixty-one years to the day after the liberation of Auschwitz, the United Nations marked its first-ever Holocaust remembrance day, commemorating those lost in the genocide that was the impetus for the world body’s birth.
The acknowledgment was long overdue, said those who attended last Friday’s ceremony in a packed General Assembly Hall.
“For us survivors, this commemoration under U.N. auspices is a muted triumph,” said Roman Kent, chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. “It is imperfect justice, for it took 60 years for the crimes committed during the Holocaust to be properly acknowledged by the United Nations.” MORE.
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Was there anyone there representing the United States? Who WAS there in support and out of respect for this day of commemoration? Although I was out of the country on the 27th I did see CNN and did NOT see any mention of this event. Was this noted by the media, and if so, by which one/s? I have the sense that this was, if not boycotted, kept at arm’s distance–was it not to “offend” those who hold the world hostage as I write this?
you are absolutely correct barb. there was no major press. I wrote an article about it in my local Jewish newspaper, but they aren’t on the net.
Anne Bayefsky of the Hudson Institute in New York posted it here:
http://www.eyeontheun.org/comment.asp?p=1010