A B’nai Brith official called on the world body to establish a Holocaust memorial to educate people visiting the U.N.’s New York headquarters. Noting that the U.N. has displayed an educational exhibit on the atomic bomb explosion at Hiroshima for decades, Harris Schoenberg, the group’s director of U.N. affairs, made the remarks at a meeting marking the 50th anniversary of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which was inspired by the Holocaust. This year saw the first international genocide trial under that convention, a move sparked by the 1994 mass slaughter in Rwanda.
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