U.N. Chief: Exhibit of Nazi Victims Is Call to Fight Cruelty
Antonio Guterres, United Nations secretary-general, center, and Dani Dayan, chairman of Yad Vashem, far right, browse the Yad Vashem Book of Names of Holocaust Victims Exhibit, Thursday, at United Nations headquarters. It is also a call to the world to “stem the tide of human cruelty and fight anti-Semitism and all forms of racism wherever and whenever it manifests itself,” Guterres said. The big installation — “The Book of Names of Holocaust Victims” — was brought to U.N. headquarters in New York by Yad Vashem. It stands 6.56 feet (2 meters) high, 3.3 feet (one meter) wide, and is 26.45 feet (8 meters) long, with the names of 4.8 million victims so far identified by Yad Vashem arranged alphabetically on pages. There are blank pages at the end symbolizing the more than 1 million murdered Jews who are still unidentified.
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