“We share a commitment to throw light on the still obscured shadows of the Holocaust.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
UN Secretary General to Visit Auschwitz-Birkenau
15.11.2013
On 18 November 2013, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945), to pay tribute to the victims and survivors of the Holocaust.
He will also stress the importance of the UN’s work for genocide prevention, tolerance and peace.
Following the visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Secretary-General will visit the Auschwitz Jewish Center's Chevra Lomdei Mishnayot Synagogue and Konreich House (a Jewish family home that is now a museum on pre-war Jewish life in Osciwiecim.)