Starting next Monday, survivors of the Shoah will take part in the Holocaust Memorial Month organised by Centro Sefarad-Israel during the month of January.
As it does every year (this time online), Centro Sefarad-Israel is designing a programme of activities that will begin on Monday 18 January with the telling of the story of Chirune Sugihara, the Japanese diplomat who saved the lives of thousands of Jews during his work in Lithuania as the country’s vice-consul. The conference, which is organised jointly with the Fundación Japon, will be given by Masaaki Shiraishi, Deputy Director of the Diplomatic Archive of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On Tuesday 19th Paquita Sitzer (in the photo) will tell her story; on Wednesday 20th there will be a tribute to Haim Vidal Sephiha; on Thursday 21st there will be a reflection on the need to preserve the places where the most destructive episodes of the Shoah were experienced; on Monday 25th Zvi Szlamowicz, a Holocaust survivor, will give his testimony. The following day (26), the online concert will take place on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, which Centro Sefarad-Israel is organising with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation and the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme, and which will be given by the Garaiz Emsemble and broadcast from the Palace of Santa Cruz, the Ministry’s headquarters. This concert will be followed by other events, which can be consulted on the website of the Diplomatic Centre.
