The exhibition will be on display at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, with the support of the Permanent Mission of Poland to the United Nations.

The exhibition is part of programme organized by the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme to mark the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.

On 29 January at 6:00 p.m., we invite you to a reception followed at 7 p.m. by a panel discussion titled "Holocaust Remembrance Today – A Living Responsibility" at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Center for Jewish History, organized in partnership with the Sousa Mendes Foundation. The panel comprises Holocaust survivor Elżbieta Ficowska and historians Jay Winter, Mordecai Paldiel and Daniel Blatman. Jayashri Wyatt, United Nations Education Outreach Section, moderates.
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Risking one's own life to save another person is one of the most extraordinary acts of courage. The exhibition Between Life and Death. Stories of Rescue during the Holocaust pays tribute to those who, during the Second World War – despite the threat of imprisonment, deportation, or death – chose to help persecuted Jews.

The exhibition presents stories of rescuing Jews from thirteen European countries: Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Italy, and Estonia, highlighting the experiences of both rescuers and survivors. By placing each story within a broader historical context, it demonstrates that decisions to help, taken for example in Warsaw and in Paris, were fundamentally different in nature. One of the panels is dedicated to diplomats from Poland, Japan, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden, and Denmark, who were active in Germany, France, Hungary, Lithuania, and Switzerland.

This initiative is a collaborative project between ENRS, the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Silent Heroes Memorial Centre. It was first presented at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels in January 2018. Since then, it has been displayed in numerous locations across Europe and Japan, including Amsterdam, Bratislava, Vilnius, Budapest, Bucharest, Bern, Dresden, Osaka, Yokohama, Tsuruga, Gifu, Szczecin, Gdańsk, Strasbourg, Bad Ischl, and Dublin. The presentation at the United Nations Headquarters in New York will be the exhibition's first showing in North America.

More information:
Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme Check out the exhibitions catalogue in English