UNESCO and Israel reinforce cooperation on Holocaust education
Premiere of Farsi language version of “Shoah” to be held at
UNESCO and broadcast to the Middle East via satellite The
government of Israel and UNESCO will sign an agreement to
reinforce their cooperation in developing and promoting
Holocaust education and combating denial of the mass murder of
Jews and other groups in World War II. The signing of the
agreement on 7 March will coincide with the premiere of the
Farsi-language version of “Shoah”, one of the most important
documentary films ever made about the Holocaust (Room 4, from
16h30 to 18h30). The film will be broadcast simultaneously for
the first time in the Middle East through satellite channels.
The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, and the French
Minister for Culture and Communication, Frédéric Mitterrand,
will introduce the screening of Shoa alongside Anne-Marie
Revcolevschi, President of the Aladdin Project, which produced
the Farsi version of the film, as well as Arabic and Turk