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HOLOCAUSTCOMMEMORATION DAY
Wednesday 24 January 2018, 12:00-13:30Yehudi Menuhin Hall, European Parliament
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Leo Haas
Piano - trio
Leia Zhengying Zhu
Violin - duet
Solomon Markman
Violin - duet
Shizuku Tatsuno
Cello - trio
Sebastian Frederik Tievenow
Piano - duet
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PROGRAMMEINTERNATIONAL
CEREMONY
HOLOCAUSTCOMMEMORATION DAY
OPENING OF EXHIBITION12:00 – 12:30Opening remarks by:Mairead McGuinness, First Vice President of the European ParliamentLívia Járóka, European Parliament Vice President, Rapporteur on EU Roma strategySoraya Post MEP, Rapporteur on Roma fundamental rights
Presentation of the Roma Holocaust Exhibition by: Jacques Delfeld, Vice-Chair of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma
Viewing of exhibition and time to take places for the ceremony
FORMAL CEREMONY12:30 – 13:30Introduction by EP Master of CeremoniesVideo– Words and Images of the ShoahEl Maleh Rachamim by Cantor Shai Abramson
Opening speech by Mairead McGuinness, First Vice President of the European ParliamentStatement by Moshe Kantor, President of the European Jewish Congress
Musical interlude by youth musicians from Musica MundiTheme from the film Schindler’s List by John Williams(Accompanied by slide-show with faces of children who perished during the Shoah)
Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49 – II by Felix Mendelssohn(Accompanied by slide-show of art and poems by children imprisoned in death and concentration camps)
Statement by Yuli-Yoël Edelstein, Speaker of the KnessetStatement by Holocaust survivor Tomáš Radil
Concluding remarks by Chief Rabbi Albert Guigui, EU Representative of the Conference of European RabbisJoined for reciting of the Kaddish by students of Tachkemoni School
Minute of Silence(Accompanied by slide-show of participants in the March of the Living)
RECEPTION 13:30 - 14:30
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