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International Holocaust Remembrance Day The Hague 2021 - Full Movie
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day The Hague 2022 - Full Movie
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day The Hague 2023 - Full Movie
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day The Hague 2025 - Full Movie
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day The Hague 2024 - Full Movie
'Painful Beginnings' - IHRD The Hague 20...
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Highlights - International Holocaust Rememberance Day - The Hague 2025
MUSICAL INTRODUCTION The Hague String Trio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqqZ9eQ-nVY Welcome The Honorable Mr. Jan van Zanen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfWoF6bc6LU Opening remarks H.E. Modi Ephraim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWxoAfh3Igo Testimony of a Holocaust Survivor Mr. Mattie (Majer) Tugendhaft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJavBhorpQI KEYNOTE ADDRESS: ‘Painful Beginnings: The Reconstruction of Jewish Communities in Central and Eastern Europe after the Holocaust’ Professor András Kovács D.Sc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKq_E2lQvA0 COMMEMORATIVE MOMENT A commemorative moment to six survivors who made significant contributions to preserving the memory of Auschwitz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbUE3lIT-oY REFLECTIONS Professor Irwin Cotler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bhPAGhw-lM Closing remarks Rabbi Shmuel Katzman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfKt7MTM5GU
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day The Hague 2025 - Full Movie
MUSICAL INTRODUCTION The Hague String Trio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqqZ9eQ-nVY Welcome The Honorable Mr. Jan van Zanen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfWoF6bc6LU Opening remarks H.E. Modi Ephraim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWxoAfh3Igo Testimony of a Holocaust Survivor Mr. Mattie (Majer) Tugendhaft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJavBhorpQI KEYNOTE ADDRESS: ‘Painful Beginnings: The Reconstruction of Jewish Communities in Central and Eastern Europe after the Holocaust’ Professor András Kovács D.Sc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKq_E2lQvA0 COMMEMORATIVE MOMENT A commemorative moment to six survivors who made significant contributions to preserving the memory of Auschwitz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbUE3lIT-oY REFLECTIONS Professor Irwin Cotler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bhPAGhw-lM Closing remarks Rabbi Shmuel Katzman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfKt7MTM5GU
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Painful Beginnings: Reconstruction of Jewish Communities after the Holocaust - Prof.András Kovács
The keynote address explores the enduring trauma faced by Holocaust survivors, reflecting on the paradox of remembering and transmitting the irreproducible and incommunicable experience of the concentration camps to future generations. Survivors of concentration camps in Central Europe faced unique and compounding challenges. Upon returning home, they often discovered that their entire families had been annihilated. They encountered devastated communities, looted properties, and pervasive hostility. Despite the abolition of anti-Jewish laws and initial promises of restitution, the political and social systems in post-war Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia failed to deliver meaningful justice. In Czechoslovakia, government decrees labeled a significant portion of surviving Jews as ‘nationally unreliable,’ classifying them as ‘German’ on linguistic grounds and denying them property and citizenship rights. In Poland, societal resistance to returning confiscated Jewish property culminated in anti-Jewish violence. Similarly, in Hungary, restitution laws were inconsistently enforced, and fear of societal backlash discouraged many survivors from reclaiming their property. The lecture underscores how antisemitism, both latent and explicit, shaped post-war policies and social attitudes. Ultimately, the lecture illustrates the enduring legacy of Holocaust trauma, as survivors carried the physical and emotional scars for the rest of their lives. It concludes with the haunting observation of Primo Levi: ‘I am back in the camp again, and nothing outside the camp holds any truth.’
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Reflections by Professor Irwin Cotler - IHRD The Hague 2025
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A Commemorative Moment - IHRD The Hague 2025
A Commemorative Moment to six survivors who made significant contributions to preserving the memory of Auschwitz
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Closing remarks by Rabbi Shmuel Katzman - IHRD The Hague 2025
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Testimony by Holocaust Survivor Mattie Tugenthaft - IHRD The Hague 2025
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Opening by H.E. Modi Ephraim - Ambassador of Israel - IHRD The Hague 2025
The impact of the Holocaust on the devel...
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day The Hague 2024 - Full Movie
6th annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day The Hague commemoration event, focused around the theme of the impact of the Holocaust on the development of International Law and paying tribute to Holocaust survivor and international human rights lawyer Thomas Buergenthal (1934 - 2023)
“Victim Testimony” - IHRD The Hague 2023
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Looking back International Holocaust Remembrance Day The Hague 2023
Full movie: https://youtu.be/49VowcsXFpw Opening remarks by mayor Jan van Zanen and survivors testimony Mrs. Deborah Maarsen-Laufer https://youtu.be/krIBWmZnlWM 'Rachel Auerbach: The Eichmann Trial and a new conception of victim testimony' - Prof. Leora Bilsky https://youtu.be/gWpf9op0YS4 Reflective remarks by Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius https://youtu.be/GcO039xCguM “The Eye That Saw and Bore Witness” - A tribute to 6 photographers who recorded the Holocaust https://youtu.be/GeiJip7UCVY Closing remarks by Rabbi Shmuel Katzman - Rabbi of the Jewish community of The Hague https://youtu.be/ESXGxflJyFw More information at: Ihrd-TheHague.org
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day The Hague 2023 - Full Movie
The 5th annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day The Hague commemoration event, focused around the theme of “Victim Testimony. 00:01 Musical opening 08:14 Opening remarks: The Honorable Jan van Zanen, Mayor of the City of The Hague 14:13 Testimony of a survivor: Mrs. Deborah Maarsen-Laufer, Survivor of Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen 24:10 Introduction of the Keynote Speaker: H.E. Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals 30:26 Keynote address: Rachel Auerbach, the Eichmann Trial and a new conception of victim testimony - Professor Leora Bilsky 1:08:15 Reflective remarks - Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, Minister of Justice and Security of The Netherlands 1:16:46 Tribute: “The Eye Tat Saw and Bore Witness” - A tribute to 6 photographers who documented the Holocaust - Introduced by H.E. Modi Ephraim, Ambassador of Israel to The Netherlands 1:30:08 Closing remarks - Rabbi Shmuel Katzman, Rabbi of the Jewish community of The Hague More information at: Ihrd-TheHague.org
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day - The Hague 2023 - Musical opening
The Jewish cultural organization CHAJ together with the Municipality of The Hague and the Embassy of Israel in the Netherlands, have initiated the fifth International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration event, a lecture which took place on Monday the 30th of January 2023 at the Peace Palace’s Academy Building. More information: www.ihrd-theague.org
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Opening remarks by mayor Jan van Zanen and survivors testimony Mrs. Deborah Maarsen-Laufer
00:58 Opening remarks The Honorable Jan van Zanen Mayor of the City of The Hague 05:57 Testimony of a survivor Mrs. Deborah Maarsen-Laufer Survivor of Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen This video is part of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day - The Hague 2023 More information: www.ihrd-theague.org
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'Rachel Auerbach: The Eichmann Trial and a new conception of victim testimony' - Prof. Leora Bilsky
00:41 Introduction of the Keynote Speaker H.E. Judge Graciela Gatti Santana President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals 06:57 Keynote Address: 'Rachel Auerbach: The Eichmann Trial and a new conception of victim testimony' Professor Leora Bilsky - Full Professor The Benno Gitter Chair in Human Rights, Holocaust Research Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, and Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights TAU This video is part of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day - The Hague 2023 More information: www.ihrd-theague.org
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Reflective remarks by Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, Minister of Justice and Security of The Netherlands
This video is part of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day - The Hague 2023 More information: www.ihrd-theague.org
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“The Eye That Saw and Bore Witness” - A tribute to 6 photographers who recorded the Holocaust
Tribute: “The Eye That Saw and Bore Witness” A tribute to 6 photographers who risked their lives recording the Holocaust Introduced by H.E. Modi Ephraim - Ambassador of Israel to The Netherlands Candle ceremony by survivor Mrs. Deborah Maarsen 05:39 Maria Austria 06:08 Rudolf Werner Breslauer 07:00 H.C. Damen 07:16 Jan Duimel 07:55 Johan de Haas 08:31 Lydia van Nobelen-Rizouw This video is part of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day - The Hague 2023 More information: www.ihrd-theague.org
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Closing remarks by Rabbi Shmuel Katzman - Rabbi of the Jewish community of The Hague
Closing remarks by Rabbi Shmuel Katzman - CHAJ - cultural foundation of the Jewish community of The Hague This video is part of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day - The Hague 2023 More information: www.ihrd-theague.org
Victims as Witnesses - IHRD The Hague 20...
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IHRD The Hague 2022 - Welcome by H. E. Modi Ephraim
Welcome by H. E. Modi Ephraim, Ambassador of Israel in The Netherlands
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Reflections on historical film by Mayor Jan van Zanen
This video has been recorded for IHRD The Hague 2022
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Documentary - Victims as witnesses
A tribute to six survivors who stood at the witness stand. In a court of law, it was not easy for them to revisit their personal tragedies. They elected to bear witness, during the Eichmann Trials, the Purge Trials, and the Demjanjuk trials. Featuring Anetje Fels, Ben Sijes, Lotte Salzberger, Jozeph Michman, Jules Schelvis and Rudie Cortissos.
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Remarks by Professor Eli Salzberger - IHRD The Hague 2022
Professor Eli Salzberger shares about his mother Charlotte Salzberger's life and testimony
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Remarks by Professor Dan Michman - IHRD The Hague 2022
Professor Dan Michman shares about his father's Joseph Michman's life and testimony
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Combatting Holocaust denial and distortion - IHRD The Hague 2022
Guest address by Ms Ellen Germain, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, U.S. Department of State
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Testimony by Rabbi Emeritus Awraham Soetendorp - IHRD The Hague 2022
Rabbi Soetendorp, of the Liberal Jewish Community, reflects on what it means to have been a hidden child in the Netherlands, during the War, a Holocaust survivor, a child hidden for years in the home of a special family in Velp.
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IHRD The Hague 2022 - Closing remarks by Rabbi Shmuel Katzman
Imperfect Justice for Holocaust Survivor...
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Short Compilation - IHRD The Hague 2021
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Documentary The Claims Conference of 1952 - IHRD The Hague 2021
The Claims Conference of 1952 The road to the Luxembourg Agreement
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Keynote Lecture by Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat - IHRD The Hague 2021
Imperfect Justice for Holocaust Survivors and Families of Victims: Compensation, Restitution, and Lessons for the Future’ Stuart E. Eizenstat, a former official in four U.S. administrations, including as United States Ambassador to the European Union and Special Representative of the President and Secretary of State on Holocaust Era Issues
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Welcome by Rabbi Shmuel Katzman - IHRD The Hague 2021
Rabbi S. Katzman, CHAJ cultural foundation of the Jewish community of The Hague
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Memorial at the Mr. L.E. Visserhuis - IHRD The Hague 2021
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Opening Remarks by President Yusuf - IHRD The Hague 2021
H.E. Judge A. A. Yusuf, President of the International Court of Justice
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Holocaust Testimony by Marion Ein Lewin - IHRD The Hague 2021
Ms. M. Ein Lewin, Former Director Office of health policy programs and fellowships, Institute of medicine of the National Academies, Washington DC
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Reflections by Burgermeester Jan van Zanen - IHRD The Hague 2021
Beyond East West Street - IHRD The Hague...
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A look back at Holocaust Remembrance Day The Hague 2020
Together with the Municipality of The Hague and the Embassy of Israel in the Netherlands, the Jewish cultural organisation CHAJ has initiated an International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration event, a Lecture, which took place for the second time on Monday the 27th of January 2020 at the Peace Palace’s Academy Building. Philippe Sands delivered a lecture entitled ‘Beyond East West Street,’ reflecting the title of his best-selling book, East West Street. The horrors of the Holocaust were a turning point in history which prompted the World to say, “Never Again.” On the 1st of November 2005, the United Nations General Assembly, in Resolution 60/7, designated the 27th of January as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In 2006 the first IHRD commemoration took place, and since then ceremonies have been held each year at the United Nations Offices in New York and Geneva and in many cities around the world. The Hague is often referred to as the World Capital of International Law and the City of Peace and Justice, so it was deemed appropriate to add the city to the list of places marking IHRD annually. Together with the Municipality of The Hague and the Embassy of Israel in the Netherlands, the Jewish cultural organisation CHAJ has initiated an International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration event, a Lecture, which took place for first time in 2019 at the Peace Palace’s Academy Building. For more information: www.ihrd-thehague.org
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Keynote lecture Professor Philippe Sands at International Holocaust Remembrance Day The Hague 2020
On January 27 th 2020, Philippe Sands delivered a lecture during International Holocaust Remembrance Day The Hague entitled ‘Beyond East West Street,’ reflecting the title of his best-selling book, East West Street. The lecture was held at the Peace Palace’s Academy Building in The Hague. For more info: www.ihrd-thehague.org
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Speech by H E Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf at International Holocaust Remembrance Day The Hague 2020
HE Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, President of the International Court of Justice, kindly agreed to open International Holocaust Remembrance Day The Hague 2020. He held an impressive speech where he pointed at the danger of dividing humanity into “us” and “the Other”. During the Holocaust, the “Other” were the Jews, the Sinti and Roma, Gays, and the mentally infirm. It is almost impossible now to imagine a group of men sitting quietly planning the murder on an industrial scale of millions, only because they were the “Other”. The many genocidal atrocities against other groups since 1945 shows that we haven’t learned much. More information: www.ihrd-theague.org
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Naor Gilon, Ambassador of Israel; candle lightning in commemoration Holocaust victims @ IHRD-TH 2020
The horrors of the Holocaust were a turning point in history which prompted the World to say, “Never Again.” Together with the Municipality of The Hague and the Embassy of Israel in the Netherlands, the Jewish cultural organisation CHAJ has also initiated an International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration event, a Lecture, which took place for the second time on the 27th of January 2020 at the Peace Palace’s Academy Building. On the 1st of November 2005, the United Nations General Assembly, in Resolution 60/7, designated the 27th of January as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In 2006 the first IHRD commemoration took place, and since then ceremonies have been held each year at the United Nations Offices in New York and Geneva and in many cities around the world. The Hague is often referred to as the World Capital of International Law and the City of Peace and Justice, so it was deemed appropriate to add the city to the list of places marking IHRD annually. www.ihrd-thehague.org
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Welcome at IHRD-TH 2020 by Mr. Johan Remkes, acting Mayor of The Municipality of The Hague
The Jewish cultural organisation CHAJ together with the Municipality of The Hague and the Embassy of Israel in the Netherlands, has initiated an International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration event, a Lecture, which took place for the second time on Monday the 27th of January 2020 at the Peace Palace’s Academy Building. H.E. Mayor of The Hague, Johan Remkes welcomed the public consisting of, ambassadors, judges, diplomats, professionals from international law, World Class students, representatives of various Jewish organizations and other interested parties. He emphasized that we should never let those who initiate or participate in atrocities escape judgment and that education is the key to democracy. www.ihrd-thehague.org
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