The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme and the United Nations Information Centres
The "Holocaust and the United Nations" outreach programme provides the network of United Nations information centres (UNICs), services (UNIS) and offices (UNOs) in over 60 countries with guidelines on Holocaust commemoration days, teaching manuals on Holocaust education, combating intolerance and educational documentaries to promote the lessons of the Holocaust in order to help to prevent future acts of genocide.
In 2007-2008, the outreach programme organized four week-long training programmes for National Information Officers from the global network of United Nations information centres. The seminars examined the events that led to the Holocaust and the vital role that its lessons have today in the prevention of genocide.
As a result of these seminars and the ongoing guidance provided by the programme, the number of field offices organizing Holocaust Remembrance Day observances more than doubled from 2007 to 2008, and the number of activities increased threefold.
Training organized with Le Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris,France, November 2007
Training organized with Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel, October 2007
Training organized with the United Stated Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C., USA, May 2007