Holocaust Exhibition Opens at U.N. Headquarters

UNITED NATIONS — A permanent exhibition depicting saviors of Holocaust victims will open today at the U.N. headquarters in New York.

It will be part of the implementation of a 2005 General Assembly resolution calling on member states and the world body as a whole to commemorate the Holocaust and combat its denial. The exhibition, the first of its kind, is part of a week of events around the anniversary of the January 27, 1945, liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, which is designated as a Holocaust memorial day around the world.

On Monday night, the week-long memorial events at the United Nations were kicked off with a Buchmann-Mehta Symphony Orchestra of Tel Aviv University concert, conducted by Zubin Mehta, which included a performance of Jewish prayer music. In addition, the U.N. postal administration issued a stamp that would be also issued by Israel's postal authority. "The Holocaust message of 'never again' must be delivered most poignantly to Iran," Israel's minister of communications, Ariel Atias, told The New York Sun. "No country, no people would allow its own destruction, and President Ahmadinejad must realize that the world does not silently agree with him. I hope the next move would be for the U.N. to impose significant sanctions on Iran."