HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales, to Attend the World Holocaust Forum

Media Arrangements for the Fifth World Holocaust Forum “Remembering the Holocaust, Fighting Antisemitism” at Yad Vashem

(18 December 2019 – Jerusalem) The Fifth World Holocaust Forum, entitled “Remembering the Holocaust, Fighting Antisemitism,” will take place at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, on 23 January 2020, to mark the 75^th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The event, to be held at Warsaw Ghetto Square on the Mount of Remembrance, will begin at 13:30.

At the invitation of the President of the State of Israel, dozens of leaders of nations from Europe, North America and Australia, including His Royal Highness Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales, who confirmed his participation earlier today, will gather at Yad Vashem for the World Holocaust Forum, organized by the World Holocaust Forum Foundation in cooperation with Yad Vashem.

The program will include speeches by select heads of state, a Holocaust survivor and the event hosts, as well as a few short video clips and musical interludes performed by an orchestra accompanied by an international choir.

The event will conclude with a memorial ceremony. The leaders of nations will commemorate victims of the Holocaust by laying wreaths at the base of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Monument in Warsaw Ghetto Square at Yad Vashem. Holocaust survivors will be invited to light a memorial torch, and a cantor will recite the El Maleh Rahamim memorial prayer, concluding with Kaddish, the mourner’s prayer, recited by a Holocaust survivor.

Media Arrangements

Due to security procedures for the Fifth World Holocaust Forum, Yad Vashem will be closed to the public on Wednesday and Thursday, 22-23 January 2020.

The World Holocaust Forum will be broadcast live via satellite feed (worldfeed)  in HD quality by “Mizmor Productions HD”  to media agencies all over the world. Yad Vashem YouTube channels will stream the event complete with simultaneous translation in six languages – English, French, German, Hebrew, Russian and Spanish.

Media must be credentialed by the GPO in order to cover the World Holocaust Forum from Yad Vashem.

Media wishing to cover the event at Yad Vashem may do so from the Press Center at Yad Vashem, located in the International School for Holocaust Studies.