Other Events
Daniel Pearl Music Days
Each October the Department of Public Information partners with the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, to co-sponsor a concert as part of the Daniel Pearl Music Days celebration in memory of the slain journalist. The music days unite thousands of musicians over 60 countries to helps spread a message of respect for diversity and solidarity. The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme lends its support to the Daniel Pearl Foundation and the Museum of Jewish Heritage to celebrate the continuing triumph of tolerance and diversity through the universal language of music.
Daniel Pearl Music Days 2008 Edition- Soulfarm and Moshav Band
Front row (from left to right): Duvid Swirksy, Gal Gershovsky, Yehuda Solomon, Yosef Solomon- Back row (from left to right): Andrew Frawley, Yoshie Fruchter, Noah Solomon, Eric Falt (Director of the Outreach Division, DPI), Dr. David Marwell (Director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage), C Lanzbom, Gilad. Photo: Melanie Einzig
On 29 October 2008, the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme partnered with the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust- to sponsor a concert for Daniel Pearl Music Days, in memory of the murdered journalist Daniel Pearl. The concert featured Soulfarm and Moshav Band, who offered a unique blend of rock, reggae, folk and funk.
Opening remarks by Eric Falt, Director of the Outreach Division, DPI
Press release: Department of Public Information, Museum of Jewish Heritage to remember slain journalist Daniel Pearl (27 October 2008)
Eric Falt, Director of the Outreach Division, DPI . Photo: Melanie Einzig
UN News Article: Unique blend of music commemorates slain reporter in UN-backed concert (30 October 2008)
Moshav Band -Photo: Melanie Einzig
Daniel Pearl Music Days 2007 Edition- Idan Raichel, Songs for Peace: The Acoustic Series
On 8, 9, and 10 October 2007, a series of concerts featuring Israeli artist Idan Raichel took place at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, in New York. Idan Raichel’s multi-ethnic musical group blends the unique sounds of Israel’s cultural traditions with styles from around the world. Idan was joined by Colombian singer/songwriter Marta Gómez, new African jazz and soul artist Somi, Ethiopian-Israeli singer Cabra Casay, and percussion master Itamar Doari.
Opening remarks by Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information Kiyo Akasaka (10 October 2007)
David Marwell, Director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage,
UN Under-Secretary-General Kiyo Akasaka, artist Idan Raichel -Photo: Melanie Einzig
Press release: Department of Public Information, Museum of Jewish Heritage to arrange concert as part of Daniel Pearl World Music Days (3 October 2007)
UN News Article: UN, Daniel Pearl Foundation, Museum of Jewish Heritage plan concert series (4 October 2007)
Idan Raichel and Cabra Casay. Photo: Melanie Einzig
Daniel Pearl Music Days 2006 Edition- Morley and Friends
On 11 October 2006, a concert featuring a performance by “Morley and Friends” took place at the Museum of Jewish Heritage –- A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, in New
York. Following the welcoming remarks by Raymond Sommereyns, Director of the Outreach Division, the concert brought together the folk singer Morley with an array of international artists, including David Amram, Haale and Hassan Hakmoun, echoing a message of awareness, acceptance, unity and peace by joining voices in song and creative expression.
Press release : Department of Public Information, Museum of Jewish Heritage to arrange concert as part of Daniel Pearl world music days (27 September 2006)
Raymond Sommereyns, Director of the Outreach Division
Morley and Friends. Photo: Melanie Einzig
Book Signing
Stolen Youth: Five Women's Survival in the Holocaust
1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. 28 January 2009 UN Book Shop Event
Mrs. Frances Irwin will present and sign copies of her memoir included in the volume titled Stolen Youth: Five Women's Survival in the Holocaust at the UN Book Shop. Every January in observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, volumes from the Holocaust Survivors’ Memoirs Project are on display in the Public Lobby and for sale in the Book Shop. Mrs. Jeannie Rosensaft, one of the editors of the memoirs, will discuss the Project, which is an initiative of Nobel Prize laureate and United Nations Messenger of Peace Elie Wiesel, and Menachem Rosensaft, Chairman of the Project's Editorial Board. Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, joined the Project in 2004, which has published eleven books with 17 survivors' memoirs to date. Local survivors, students and the general public are invited to attend the event, to be moderated by Juan Carlos Brandt, Chief, Advocacy and Special Events, Outreach Division, United Nations Department of Public Information.
For more information, please contact holocaustremembrance@un.org.
Venue: UN Bookshop (1st basement, visitors’ entrance). Open to the public.
See full calendar of 2009 Holocaust remembrance events
Among the Righteous, Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands, by Robert Satloff
On 29 April 2008, the Department of Public Information organized and participated in a booksigning for Robert Satloff’s Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust’s Long Reach into Arab Lands’. The book unveils stories of Arabs that rescued or assisted Jews in North Africa during World War II nazi occupation. These new stories of human kindness and respect encourage human solidarity and common humanity.
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, by Daniel Mendelsohn
On 29 January 2007, author Daniel Mendelsohn discussed and signed copies of his book, The Lost: A Search for Six of the Six Million, a non-fiction memoir in which the author tells his world-wide travels in search of details about the lives and fates of the members of his family during World War II, many of whom perished during the Holocaust.