Organizers of Annual Holocaust Essay Competition Normally Held at UNESCO Headquarters Switched Venue in Wake of Body’s Resolution Denying Jewish Ties to Western Wall, Temple Mount | Algemeiner.com

Organizers of Annual Holocaust Essay Competition Normally Held at UNESCO Headquarters Switched Venue in Wake of Body’s Resolution Denying Jewish Ties to Western Wall, Temple Mount | Algemeiner.com

A major Jewish human rights group and other organizers of an annual Holocaust essay competition moved this year’s event from its usual venue at UNESCO headquarters in the French capital to the Paris Memorial to the Shoah — as a result of the body’s recent anti-Israel resolution. Simon Wiesenthal Centre-Europe (SWC), the Association Verbe et Lumière-Vigilance (VL-V), the Russian Holocaust Centre (RHC) and new partner Yad Vashem France decided against holding the Russian University…