On January 26, an online commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day took place, organized by the Mashmaut Center and the Kiryat Motzkin city council.
The event was attended by, among others, Israel's Minister of Diaspora Affairs, Dr. Nachman Shai, and the Polish Charge d'Affairs to the State of Israel, Katarzyna Rybka-Iwańska. The Warsaw Ghetto Museum was represented by its director, Albert Stankowski.
Agenda:
19:00 – 19:15 Opening Remarks:Moderator: Dr. Lea Ganor, director of the Mashmaut Center
Mayor of Kiryat Motzkin, Haim Zuri
Minister of Diaspora Affairs of the State of Israel, Dr. Nachman Shai
Chargé d'affairs of the Republic of Poland in the State of Israel, Katarzyna Rybka-Iwońska19:15 – 19:50
Wilhelm Schneider, Landkreis Haßberge, Germany
Andrzej Romańczuk, Starosta of Włodawa County
Wiesław Muszyński, mayor of Włodawa
Dr. Attila Ulrich, Deputy Mayor of Nyíregyháza & Dr. Zoltán Holmár (Nyíregyháza, Hungary)
Mr. Andrzej Pietrasik, Mayor of Plonsk, Poland
Renata Surma, mayor of Bystrzyca Kłodzka
Albert Stankowski, director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum19:50 – 20:10 Personal Testimony – “I Was There” by Miriam Harel, Survivor of the Łódź Ghetto and Auschwitz
20:10 – 20:25 Open Discussion
20:25 – 20:30 Event Closing
