In November 2005, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/60/7 (Clicking will download a PDF) designating January 27 of each year as the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. This year’s celebration at the UN will take place on Monday, January 29.

For more information about background and programs of this event, please click here for the UN web site . This web site also has a link to the Office of the Special Advisor to the Secretary General on the Prevention on Genocide which was created in 2004 to sound the alarm bell at the UN in case of future or impending genocides around the world.

To follow the live web cast of this year’s commemoration at the UN, please check for Monday, January 29th at 10:30am (New York time) on the UN web cast. Usually these web casts are being archived so that they can be viewed at a later date as well.