“This important exhibition is a call to remembrance: to remember each child, woman and man who perished in the Holocaust as a human being with a name and a future that was stolen away,” Guterres said in a statement. “It is a call to action: to always be vigilant and never stay silent when human rights and human dignity are under threat.”
Yad Vashem started to catalog the names of Holocaust victims in the 1950s, said Dr. Alexander Avram, the director of the Jerusalem museum’s Hall of Names and its central database of victims’ names.
Avram, who accompanied the display to New York, said Yad Vashem contacted the UN about hosting the display. The two organizations have also partnered in the past. The book is set up just inside the entrance to the UN’s headquarters in a prominent location visible to everyone entering.
