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Reflections on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

February 7, 2022
The university is commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day by highlighting creative initiatives carried out in 2021 despite the pandemic.

On November 1, 2005, the United Nations General Assembly decided to designate January 27 as the annual International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.

This year, that commemoration was particularly poignant, marked by renewed displays of empathy, courage, and creativity across much of the world, despite the challenges posed by the global spread of COVID-19 and the resulting restrictions.

Below are two models used by Dr. David Serrano Blanquer this year in Barcelona.

Charlotte de Grünberg
General DirectorUniversidad ORT Uruguay
Universidad ORT Uruguay

Text by David Serrano Blanquer, visiting professor at Universidad ORT Uruguay director of the documentary*Giza, the Girl in the Suitcase*

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