International Youth Leaders Pledge to Remember the Holocaust

Young people from 62 countries and five continents recently gathered at Yad Vashem's International School for Holocaust Studies for a three-day Youth Congress. Ranging in age from 17 to 19, and including among them Christians, Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, and speaking some 30 different languages, participants spoke of shaping Holocaust remembrance and its importance to coming generations.
Countries as varied as Senegal, Morocco, Australia, Thailand, Nepal, China, The Gambia, Canada, Russia, Poland, France, Great Britain, Guatemala, Turkey, Israel and the United States were represented. The Congress, under the patronage of UNESCO, was devoted to the study of the Holocaust and discussions of its universal significance.
The participants toured the various sites at Yad Vashem and participated in memorial ceremonies. They met with Holocaust survivors as well as officials from the Israeli government and international diplomatic corps. At the concluding session of the Congress, the participants presented an international youth declaration formulated during the conference focusing on the preservation of the memory of the Holocaust and the universal lessons that emerge from the Holocaust.

For more information about the Youth Congress, click http://www1.yadvashem.org/about_yad/what_new/data_whats_new/International_You...

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[moiida89]

If you had understood what the International Youth Congress was all about, you wouldn't say such things... If people forget what happend during the WW2, it will happen again! We must fight such things... This congress wasn't just about learing what happend, but to understand what we can do to pervent this from happening again!

[StaiNoGrey]

Yad Vashem is a jewish institute and the victims were mainly Jewish.

And you'd see they do mention the other victims too if you ever bother visiting the place.

[mrsixxis]

boring video

[spinkicker43]

Sir I am black, But during slavery we were not killed by the thousands per day, we may have been hanged but nnot burned get it right... this is one of the largest extermination's in history, souly on the fact that they are labeled differently,

[ilanf2]

This congress showed what the Holocaust was mainly in the Jewish point of view, however, the objective was to give a message of tolerance to avoid anything like this happen again with any kind of people.

[royalsteven]

Is this only about the jewish or also black holocaust? Because in 500 years there's also millions of blacks murdered. We should definately remember both yearly. But blacks don't get no ceremony.

[Faggymcfagfag]

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[moiida89]

It really ment a lot for me beeing in Israel with you all and take part in what we did there. It is something I never will forget!

Lot's of love from Ida, the norwegian viking ;)

[r3tro0]

the world will remember what the west remembers. And not what the Chinese/Japanese try and hide.

[willnerin2]

This ist one of the most important message to the new generations and for the future. You can't present it like a "gangster-movie". The right way is to show people who really studied Holocaust and let them tell their thoughts about what they did learn about it. A good work.