On January 27, 2017, at 11 a.m. EST, the Museum hosted a commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This program featured remarks from the Honorable Ron Dermer, ambassador of Israel to the United States, the Honorable Björn Lyrvall, ambassador of Sweden to the United States, and a Holocaust survivor, musical selections with the US Army Band, as well as a candle-lighting ceremony and victims’ names reading.
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