The DAIA and the Buenos Aires Holocaust Museum commemorated Holocaust and Heroism Day, on the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In front of more than two thousand people, the orchestra director Ángel Mahler presented an unprecedented special overture, dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Shoah The president of the DAIA, Jorge KnoblovitsThe Minister of the Interior, Eduardo “Wado” de PedroIsraeli Ambassador Eyal Sela Education Minister Jaime PerczykAbigail Dressel, Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy, with US Ambassador Marc Stanley and Marcelo Mindlin, President of the Holocaust Museum The central act was attended by survivors, national, provincial and municipal authorities, judges, political figures, diplomats, representatives of different religious denominations, community leaders, among others. The president of the Holocaust Museum, Marcelo Mindlin, expressed: “What are the battles today? On the one hand, that very thing, memory, awareness, what we are doing together: revalidate our commitment to the victims of the Shoah. The best tribute we can do for them is to continue with their education and reach more and more people with the lessons that the tragedy left us. That is the task that we carry out daily at the Buenos Aires Holocaust Museum” Inés Weinberg de Roca, judge of the Superior Court of Justice of the City of Buenos AiresAmos Linetzky, President of AMIASantiago Maggiotti, Minister of Territorial Development and Habitat, together with Jaime Perczyk, Minister of Education The Buenos Aires Minister of Culture, Enrique AvogadroThe president of the Argentine Chamber of Construction, Gustavo WeissIn an emotional moment that is repeated every year, six survivors of the Nazi horror lit a candle, each in memory of the millions of victims The Secretary of Public Affairs, Waldo WolffMaximiliano Ferraro, national deputy and president of the Civic Coalition-ARIThe former Argentine ambassador to China, Diego Guelar Deputy Alejandro Finocchiaro, former Minister of EducationThe former president of DAIA, Aldo DonzisThe ambassador of Spain, María Jesús Alonso Jiménez The rector of the Buenos Aires National College, Valeria Bergman The rector of the UBA, Ricardo GelpiDeputy Ricardo López MurphyThe former president of AMIA, Guillermo Borger Mónica Pinto, former dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos AiresThe former Minister of Education, Nicolás Trotta Gustavo Hornos, judge of Chamber IV of the Federal Chamber of Criminal CassationDeputy Daniel Arroyo, former Minister of Social DevelopmentThe former president of the DAIA, Alberto IndijRicardo López Murphy and Alejandro Finocchiaro Senator Martin Lousteau Bernardo Kosacoff (Konex Foundation)The conductor Ángel Mahler presented an unprecedented special overture dedicated to the memory of the victims of the ShoahBelgian Ambassador Karl DhaeneThe Buenos Aires legislator, Roberto García Moritan Former Senator Nito ArtazaThe greeting between Martín Lousteau and Ricardo López Murphy With education as the axis of the entire event, seven children of different ages and schools spoke with Mónica Dawidowicz, a survivor of the Shoah, who answered all their questions and expressed: “The best tribute to the victims is to assume the commitment to learn from the past to build a better future. To you, second and third generation of victims and survivors, we bequeath our testimonies of horror and resilience, you will know how to be transmitters to future generations to actively prevent something similar from ever happening again.” The singer and actress Cecilia Milone interpreted the Argentine National Anthem, accompanied by the Malher Orchestra, the choir of the Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires and the Di Tella Vocal Ensemble The former Minister of Education, Nicolás Trotta; the former dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires, Mónica Pinto; the rector of the University of the UBA, Ricardo Gelpi; the rector of the Buenos Aires National College, Valeria Bergman; and the national deputy and former Minister of Education, Alejandro Finocchiaro, took the stage to remember Janusz Korczak, a Jewish doctor, writer and educator murdered during the Shoah Former DAIA President Ariel Cohen SabbanThe ceremony ended with the musical scene Hallelujah, the interpretation of Hatikva (Israel’s national anthem) and the Partisans’ Anthem. The businessman Jorge Sánchez Córdova Dante Camaño, General Secretary of the Gastronomy Union of the City of Buenos AiresAriel Blufstein, in charge of Diplomatic Relations of the DAIAThe DAIA and the Holocaust Museum commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising /// Photos: Franco Fafasuli
