The Romanian Cultural Institute in Prague joins the EUNIC Bratislava cluster members and the National Slovak Museum - Museum of Jewish Culture in organizing a ceremony concert on the occasion of the opening of the permanent exhibition at the Holocaust Museum in Sereď. The Todes Fuge concert will take place on January 26th, 2016, on the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, at 7 p.m., in Moyzes Hall (Vajanského nábrežie 70/12, 81102 Bratislava), under the auspices of Mr. Robert Fico, Prime minister of the Slovak Republic, and of Mr. Marek Maďarič, Minister of Culture of the Slovak Republik.
The concert will be performed by Jana Orlická - singer, Prague Jazz Septet, The Chamber Choir in Moravia, Jiří Šimáček, Petr Kořínek - conductors. The Romanian moment consists of the Rumenie Rumenie Yiddish song about our country.
January 27th is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the first universal commemoration of the Holocaust victims. It was enacted by the UN General Assembly Resolution no. 60/7 of November 1st, 2005, adopted during its 42nd plenary session. On January 24th, 2005, during a special session, the UN General Assembly marked the 60th anniversary of the end of Holocaust and closure of the Nazi concentration camps which resulted in 6 million European Jews and millions of people of other nationalities being killed by the German Nazi Regime. Also, January 27th is the date when, in 1945, the biggest Nazi camp from Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland today) was closed by the Soviet Army. During the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance plenary in Manchester, December 2014 - ten years after having become a member of the organization - Romania received the presidency mandate of the Alliance in 2016.
