*The International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Queens Organizing Committee*

*Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills*

*Queens Jewish Historical Society*

invite you to join us for

INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

7:00 p.m.

Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills

71-25 Main St. 

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

was designated by the United Nations General Assembly on November 1, 2005.

A "universal commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust," it denotes the date of January 27, 1945, when the largest Nazi death camp (Auschwitz-Birkenau) was liberated by Soviet troops. 90% of the 1.1 million victims at the site were Jews. It is commemorated every year at the United Nations and by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington, D.C. It is recognized by New York State (Chapter 241 of the Laws of 2009). This event will emphasize the importance of the central Jewish Holocaust experience and its universality among the worlds' population in the last two centuries.

Please join with Congressman Anthony Weiner, keynote speaker, and Bukharian World War II veterans of the Red Army in a moving commemoration, the first ever in Queens. This year the Queens venue for the event is the Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills' sanctuary. The program will consist of the keyn ote address, Jewish and secular organization leaders, each with a strict time limit. A social hour will follow the presentations.

For more information, please contact

Rabbi Moses A. Birnbaum at (718) 263-6500 or (516) 768-6565

 Jeff Gottlieb, President of the Queens Jewish Historical Society, 

at (917) 376-4496 or jeffgottlieb@hotmail.com.