We are happy to present a new spot for this year’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The short animation features the work of Mieczysław Kościelniak—an artist who, despite the inhumane conditions of a concentration camp, created drawings that not only bore witness to unspeakable tragedy but also symbolized resilience, survival, and the power of memory.
The International Holocaust Remembrance Day was designated as such by the United Nations General Assembly in 2005 in order to make future generations sensitive to the tragedy of the Holocaust and so prevent in that way any future acts of genocide. The Day is commemorated on 27 January, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau German Nazi concentration camp, the site that witnessed the carnage of at least a million of Hungarian, Polish, French, Czech, Slovak and Greek Jews as well as those from other countries, and around a hundred twenty thousand other prisoners (Poles, Roma, Soviet captives and others).
Learn more about the day here.
Watch the animation:
Public task financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland within the grant competition "Public Diplomacy 2024-2025 - the European dimension and countering disinformation".