Place:MUSEUM OF NATIONAL HISTORY (MUZEU KISTORIK KOMBËTAR)

14:30: Reception by the Albanian Prime Minister (upon invitation)

15:00: Official discourse

Mr Edmond Panariti, President of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe
Prof. Dr Sali Berisha, Prime Minister of Albania
Dr Nils Muižnieks, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe
Mr Kastriot Islami, Member of the Albanian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Mr Lars Molin, Rapporteur of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe on human rights, and Chair of the Monitoring Committee, on the behalf of the Chair
Grand Rabbi Yoel Kaplan, Chief Rabbi of Tirana and Albania
Mr Lulzim Basha, Mayor of Tirana

15:30-15:45: Passing on the Remembrance of the Holocaust at the Council of Europe: Dr Carole Reich, Program manager

15:45–16:00: The Concept of “Those who save the honor of Humanity during the Holocaust”: Dr Yehudit Shendar, Senior Curator of Holocaust Art, Deputy Director of the Museums Division, Yad Vashem

16:00-16:15: Art as a factor of passing on the remembrance of the Holocaust,

Dr Francine Mayran, painter and psychiatrist

16:15-18:00: Introductory conference; Prof. Artan Hoxha from the University of Tirana, The rescue of Jews by the Albanian population

16:15-18:15: those who saved the honor of humanity during the Holocaust: testimonies. Run by Dr Fabienne Regard expert at the Council of Europe

18:15-19:00: A film on the rescue of Albanian Jews:

World’s noblemen, 2009, by Mrika Krasniqi