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FEATURE: Music at UN event teaches about the Holocaust through victims' experiences

29 April 2014
From Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933 until the 1945 liberation, music played an integral role in daily life under Nazism, as illustrated at a United Nations event which used the medium of the arts to communicate fragments of the lives of victims of the Holocaust.
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On Holocaust Memorial Day, UN calls for unflagging vigilance to prevent new genocide

27 January 2014
The United Nations today paid tribute to the 6 million Jews and countless others massacred in the Nazi Holocaust with a solemn ceremony in the General Assembly Hall, a rebuke to Holocaust deniers, and a warning from Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of the perils of anti-Semitism and hatred of any kind.

At New York synagogue, UN chief honours Holocaust victims, pays tribute to survivors

18 January 2014
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined congregants at a New York City synagogue on Saturday to honour those who perished in the Holocaust, pay tribute to the survivors and call for collective action to prevent such horror from happening again.