THE HOLOCAUST AND THE UNITED NATIONS OUTREACH PROGRAMME

Music and the Holocaust 89
A group photo of the panellists at “Learning about the Holocaust through the Arts” on
28 April 2014. Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal (front row, right), Under-Secretary-General for
Communications and Public Information with Holocaust survivor Naomi Warren. From left:
Olympia Dukakis, Academy award-winning actress; Nava Semel, renowned Israeli author and
second generation Holocaust survivor; David Roet, Deputy Permanent Representative of Israel
to the UN; Stephen Mills, Artistic Director of Ballet Austin; Kimberly Mann, Manager of The
Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme; Olga Gershenson, Associate Professor,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Shirli Gilbert, Karten Associate Professor of Jewish/
non-Jewish relations, University of Southampton; Clive Marks, philanthropist and administrator
of the Lord Ashdown Charitable Trust; and Robert Singer, Chief Executive Officer and Executive
Vice President, World Jewish Congress.
Photo Credit: UN Photo/ Paulo Filgueiras
A page of sheet music of a piece entitled ‘Le crucifié’ (The crucified) by Alex Alicouli, a pseudonym
for Aleksander Kulisiewicz, and dated II.XI.44, KLS (Sachsenhausen), 2 November 1944.
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Aleksander Kulisiewicz