The Museum of Tolerance will observe the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust Sunday with a program including the screening of a documentary and the first reading of a children’s book about Anne Frank.
The new documentary “Who Will Write Our History” will be screened at 10 a.m. as part of a simultaneous screening at more than 200 venues globally followed by a discussion from UNESCO headquarters in Paris between the filmmakers and historians.
“Who Will Write Our History” documents how a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders worked to smuggle reports of atrocities in the Warsaw Ghetto to the outside world and preserve its record for future generations.
“The Cat Who Lived with Anne Frank” will have its first reading at 2:30 p.m. by Zoe Lister-Jones, a cast member of the CBS comedy “Life in Pieces.” The book tells Anne Frank’s story from the point of view of Mouschi, the cat who lived with the Frank family in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam during World War II.
The family event will also include a presentation by the book’s authors, David Lee Miller and Steven Jay Rubin, a gallery of art from the book, musical performances and arts and crafts making for youngsters.
The book will be published Feb. 5.
Holocaust survivors are scheduled to speak at noon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. Each talk is approximately one hour.
International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust was established by a United Nations resolution adopted in 2005 and comes on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops.
In a 2018 message on the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, President Donald Trump said, “Every generation must learn and apply the lessons of the Holocaust to prevent new horrors against humanity from occurring.
“As I have said: `We will stamp out prejudice. We will condemn hatred. We will bear witness, and we will act.’ In this spirit, we must join together across our nations and with people of goodwill around the world to eliminate prejudice and promote more just societies. We must remain vigilant to protect the fundamental rights and inherent dignity of every human being.”