80 Years After the Liberation of Auschwitz: Remember, Learn, Act.
Date: Sunday, January 26, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM EST, 17:00 CET
Featured Speakers:
Dr. Kathrin Meyer, Secretary-General of The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Dr. Meyer has led IHRA since 2008, retires next month as Secretary-General. Under her leadership, IHRA is today recognized as the world’s preeminent network of countries and organizations acting to preserve the memory of the Holocaust, combat its distortion, and confront the disturbing rise of antisemitism.
Introduction:
Oana Nestian-Sandu, TOLI International Program Director
Interviewer:
Larry Luxner, Journalist
January 27 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, and has been designated by the UN and many countries as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Over one million Jews, among many others, were killed in Auschwitz.
Six million Jews – about one third of the world’s Jewish population at the time – were murdered during the Holocaust.
In commemoration, TOLI invites you to this special online program, where we pay tribute to the victims and survivors of the Holocaust and interview Dr. Kathrin Meyer, the Secretary-General of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).
Founded in 1998, IHRA today includes 35 Member Countries, 8 Observer Countries, and partner organizations which have come together to strengthen and advance Holocaust education, remembrance and research worldwide.
There will also be a short video, featuring Auschwitz survivors and the late Olga Lengyel, whose memoir “Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor’s True Story of Auschwitz” was one of the first published accounts of the notorious death camp.
TOLI, named after Olga Lengyel, provides educators in the US and Europe with the opportunity to learn how to teach the Holocaust and bring its lessons to their schools and classrooms.
