The exhibition “Auschwitz–A Crime Against Mankind,” on display in the visitors’ lobby of the United Nations, will be open to the public for an additional month and will not close on January 31 as originally planned, but on February 28.
The announcement was made yesterday by Prof. Maurice Goldstein, president of the International Auschwitz Committee, which organized the exhibition together with the Auschwitz State Museum in Poland. The UN display was sponsored by the UN Center for Human Rights.
In an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Goldstein said that the UN agreed to the extension of the exhibition at the request of the International Auschwitz Committee. According to Goldstein, about 40,000 people have already visited the exhibition and an estimated 30,000 more visitors will view it by February 28.
Goldstein said that negotiations are underway to present the exhibition in other cities throughout the U.S. The exhibition, he added, will also be shown in Vienna, Paris and Brussels later this year.
More than 100 Holocaust survivors gathered last night in the UN visitors’ lobby to mark the 41st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
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