The 2022 annual commemoration of the International Day of commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust will be held virtually and guided by the theme, “Memory, Dignity, and Justice”.

The ceremony will be live-streamed worldwide on 27 January at 11:00 a.m. EST.

Join from where you are on UN Web TV, the United Nations YouTube channel, or the Twitter and Facebook of UN Web TV.

Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, will host the ceremony.

Speakers include the Secretary-General, the President of the General Assembly, the Permanent Representative of Israel to the UN, and the Permanent Representative of the United States to the UN.

Eminent Holocaust scholar and philosopher Professor John K. Roth will deliver the keynote address.

The ceremony will include testimonies of Holocaust survivors from Canada, Israel, South Africa, and the United States as well as children and grandchildren of Jewish and Romani Holocaust survivors.

There are speakers from diverse regions, ages, genders, and ethnicities, who will share how their values, choices, and commitments to advancing human rights have been shaped by their encounters with the history of the Holocaust.

Alice Nderitu, Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide, will contribute.

Renowned violinist Pinchas Zukerman and pianist Shai Wosner will perform a musical piece and Rabbi Arthur Schneier of Park East Synagogue and Cantor Daniel Mendelson of Congregation Kol Ami in White Plains, New York, will recite memorial prayers.

The online ceremony is made possible by the close collaboration between the News and Media Division and the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme.

Other Holocaust remembrance events include:

  • the exhibition “After the End of the World: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps” at UNHQ (through 20 February)

  • a virtual civil society briefing “The Future of Memory: Holocaust Remembrance, History and New Media” (3 February)

  • virtual screenings and discussion of the documentary, The Last Survivors (10 February)

  • virtual discussion with Dr. Elisabeth Anthony, author of The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust (17 February)

For more information, please visit the website of the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme.