Learning from the Past ~ Lessons for Today
4856_HMDcover07 15/01/2007 14:06 Page 2 2007 Learning from the past ~ lessons for today The Holocaust Memorial Day Committee in association with the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform; Dublin City Council; Dublin Maccabi Charitable Trust and the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland 4856_HMDcover07 15/01/2007 14:06 Page 3 Mauthausen, Austria An orchestra escorts prisoners destined for execution. Yad Vaschem 4856_HMDinside07 15/01/2007 15:42 Page 1 Holocaust Memorial Day The Round Room at the Mansion House, Dublin January 2007 Programme • Introductory remarks, Yanky Fachler • Words of Welcome, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Cllr Vincent Jackson • The Stockholm Declaration, Winni Fejne, Minister at the Swedish Embassy, Dublin • Keynote address, Michael McDowell T.D., Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform • Choral interlude • Survivors of the Holocaust – Geoffrey Phillips, Suzi Diamond, Tomi Reichental, Zoltan Zinn-Collis • Primo Levi, The Honorable Mrs Justice Susan Denham • The only Jew on Leros, Barry Andrews TD • Persecution of the Deaf, Theo Dorgan • Camp Orchestras, John Bowman • Musical interlude • Recalling the victims, pupils of Belvedere College, Rathdown School, Stratford College and Presentation Secondary School, Waterford • The Great Raid, Estelle Menton, President of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland • The Nazi Holocaust, Ruairi Quinn T.D., chairperson of the Holocaust Educational Trust of Ireland • Choral interlude • The plight of the St Louis, Senator David Norris • Warsaw Ghetto, Dick
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