Education on Holocaust Remembrance in Hungary 2014 - UNESCO grants its patronage to Holocaust memorial year in Hungary

UNESCO recognizes that teaching about the history of the Holocaust is fundamental to establishing respect for human rights, basic freedoms and the values of tolerance and mutual respect. UN Member States are encouraged to develop educational programmes that transmit the memory of the Holocaust to future generations so as to prevent genocide from occurring again. UNESCO promotes these learning materials and provides a platform for institutions, teachers, students and interested parties to access resources on Education for Holocaust Remembrance. 

--> This is the image of the most touching Holocaust Memorial that I know of. It is located in Budapest, Hungary (which is my hometown), on the shore of the Danube, right in front of our House of Parliament.  It was sculpted by Gyula Pauer and thought upon by film director Can Togay. 
 

 To encourage this there is an International Seminar this year called: "The Impact of Holocaust Education: How to Assess Policies and Practices?". The seminar is organized in the framework of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust and aims to discuss the contents and quality of Holocaust education in several countries of the world. 

UNESCO has agreed to be chief patron of the Holocaust Memorial Year 2014 in Hungary. The memorial year will mark the 70th anniversary of the 1944 deportation of Jews of Hungary to the German extermination and concentration camp of Auschwitz Birkenau and commemorate victims of the Holocaust in Hungary during the Second World War.

 Here read about Holocaust Denial by UNESCO 2013

  Here read about Memorial Year in Budapest, Hungary