Memorial stone
in San Petersburg for the Italians persecuted by Stalin
29 June 2007, at the Levashovo Memorial Cemetery, ceremony with relatives of the victims and Italian and Russian delegated authorities
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Srebrenica
for Memory
27 August–1 September 2007, International Week of Dialogue dedicated to remembering. Open to members of representative institutions, scholars, researchers, journalists, artists, cultural animators and students from both the Balkans and the rest of Europe
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Karen Jeppe
on the Wall of Remembrance at Yerevan
29 April 2007, ceremony to honour Karen Jeppe, the Danish teacher who saved thousands of orphans during the Genocide, at Dzidzernagapert, the Hill of Swallows, to remember all the victims of the Armenian Genocide
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Sarajevo
Tribunal o Dobrim Ljudima U Vremenu Zla
Bosnia-Erzegovina, 6-12 May 2007, presentation of Gabriele Nissim’s book, translated by Ivana Varunek and published by Gariwosa, the Bosnian section of the Committee for the Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide, with the contribution of the Norwegian Embassy. The author was present with Svetlana Broz
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Dusko Kondor
assassinated in Bosnia
Director of the Seminars on Civil Courage run by Gariwo-Sarajevo and co-founder of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kondor was brutally murdered on 22 February 2007 in Bijelina, Serb Republic. Lecturer in sociology, philosophy and democracy, he is survived by his wife and two daughters
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Moshe Bejski
dies
The President of the Yad Vashem Commission of the Righteous died in hospital in Tel Aviv on 6 May 2007. Born in the Polish village of Dzialoszyce in 1920, he survived Auschwitz thanks to Oskar Shindler’s famous list. He emigrated to Israel in 1945 and devoted his life to the search for the "Righteous among the Nations". He is buried in the Kiryat Shaul Cemetery in Tel Aviv
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France
Le jardin des Justes
French edition of Gabriele Nissim’s book on the life of Moshe Bejski and the Yad Vashem Commission of the Righteous. Title: Le Jardin des Justes. Payot Press. Reviewed in "Le Figaro"
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