Marking the 67th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation, an exhibition "The Holocaust - Keeping the Memory Alive" feauring 16 entries of an international design student poster contest opened at the UN headquarters in New York and in the European Commission in Brussels. Supported by the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (ITF), the exhibit was organized by Yad Vashem, le Mémorial de la Shoah, ESLI and the UN Holocaust Programme.

The government has approved Israel’s membership in ESLI Sunday. The institute was established by the Czech government to restore Jewish property and promote holocaust research and education. The government has decided that the Senior Citizens Ministry, led by Deputy Minister Leah Ness, will represent Israel at the institute.

To mark the sad 70th anniversary from the establishment of Ghetto Terezin, the European Shoah Legacy Institute has teamed with the public benefit organization Opona and the Jewish Museum in Prague to organize a premiere screening in the Czech Republic of a new American documentary called The Last Flight of Peter Ginz about an exceptionally talented child artist who wrote poems and novels and drew and painted, and following his incarceration in the Ghetto Terezin, lead and edited an underground youth magazine called Vedem.