Ambassador Jan Eliasson, President of the UN General Assembly to Meet with Appeal Leadership and Speak at Park East Synagogue: Heralds First UN Holocaust Commemoration Day New York, Jan. 6, 2005—Ambassador Jan Eliasson, president of the United Nations General Assembly will meet with ACF leaders and speak at Park East..Read More
On behalf of the Holocaust survivors in the congregation this morning I extend a warm welcome to you, Secretary General and Mrs. Ban, and the diplomatic corps who have joined us in remembrance of the Holocaust. Your presence this morning is an act of remembrance and resolve to never again..Read More
Remarks by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Rabbi Schneier, Your Excellency Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, President of the General Assembly, Excellencies, Holocaust survivors, Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for inviting me to join your congregation’s commemoration of the International Holocaust remembrance day. I was very moved by last year’s observance in this..Read More
THE DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL Remarks at Park East Synagogue Memorial Service in honour of the Victims of the Holocaust New York, 27 Jan 2015 Rabbi Arthur Schneier, Ministers, Distinguished members of the Diplomatic Corps, Honorable survivors of the Holocaust, Ladies and Gentlemen, Shabbat Shalom. Salaam. Peace be with you all. It..Read More
Holocaust survivor Rabbi Arthur Schneier, recipient of U.S. Presidential Citizens Medal, Senior Rabbi of Park East Synagogue in Manhattan, hosted a first-time gathering of Holocaust survivors and survivors of the Rwandan genocide who met on International Holocaust Memorial Day. Jonny Daniels, Founder of “From The Depths,” a Holocaust remembrance foundation,..Read More
My esteemed friend UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Your Excellencies, all members of the Diplomatic Corps and the UN, my fellow Holocaust survivors and Park East Family and friends all. I would like to call on my fellow Holocaust survivors to stand. Our greatest concern, given the dwindling number of..Read More
Excellencies, Dear friends, Rabbi Schneier, thank you for bringing us together. I am at home with you and I am at home at Park East Synagogue. I delivered one of my very first speeches as Secretary-General here, and I have been honoured to return. On each occasion, I stressed the..Read More
On January 25, 2021, the Appeal of Conscience Foundation co-Sponsored the UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE VIRTUAL SERVICE Marking the 76th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz Addressed by UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Rabbi Arthur Schneier, President and Founder, Appeal of Conscience Foundation.
Hon. Richard M. Mills, Jr, Deputy Permanent Representative of the United States to the U.N., H.E. Gilad Menashe Erdan, Permanent Representative of Israel to the U.N., H.E. Csaba Kőrösi, President, U.N. General Assembly, H.E. Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General to the U.N., Rabbi Arthur Schneier, Senior Rabbi Park East Synagogue, President and..Read More
Children are not born with hatred: they are taught to hate. When infected, they become carriers of hatred. The antitode is education, education, eduction: “Love your neighbor as yourself” and “Respect the Other”; they are the cornerstones of a civilized world”
– Rabbi Arthur Schneier, January 25, 2021
“Holocaust denial are the rallying cries for all hate mongers of our day including ‘Camp Auschwitz’ and ‘6MWE’, shorthand for ‘Six Million Wasn’t Enough”, outfits. A scorge on any society. Racism and xenophobia are the variants and mutations of anti-Semitism. Hatred must be stopped in its tracks. United we must defeat these plagues against humanity.”
– Rabbi Arthur Schneier, January 25, 2021
“As a witness to the horrific crimes, I made a commitment not to remain silent or indifferent to the cry of the oppressed, regardless of race, creed or color”
– Rabbi Arthur Schneier, January 25, 2021
“We can never let down our guard”
– H.E. Antonio Guterres, January 25, 2021
“Anti-semitism found its most horrific expression in the Holocaust .The universal revulsion of this crime followed by the founding of the United Nations and the signing of the universal declaration of human rights promised and end but it did not end. Anti-Semitism to blight our world”
– H.E. Antonio Guterres, January 25, 2021
“We need coordinated and global action on the scale of the threat we face to build an alliance against the gross spread of neo-Nazism and white supremacy and to fight propaganda and misinformation”
– H.E. Antonio Guterres, January 25, 2021
