Sentences with phrase «official memorial»

Yad Vashem Yad Vashem, in Israel, is the official memorial of the Holocaust.

The first official Memorial Day celebration was held in the United States in May 1868.

About two years ago, he decided to submit the family's name to Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to victims of the Holocaust.

Not exact matches

But in a reversal from their stance Memorial Day weekend, city officials took a more passive approach to the weekend crime spree, saying there weren't any immediate fixes and crime reduction would have to happen «over the long - term,» Police Supt. Garry McCarthy told reporters.

During his first administration, 2005 to 2010, he made an official three - day visit as a guest of then - president Shimon Peres, during which he visited the Weizmann Institute, the Schneider Children's Hospital and the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial.

The Swedish TT news agency said city officials planned to move thousands of flowers at a makeshift memorial in Stockholm to a nearby square after an aluminum fence outside the Ahlens department store threatened to collapse.

Though the dedication ceremony for the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial has been moved to a Roman Catholic church in Washington, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, National Cathedral officials said they hoped to host services Sunday.

As Matthew Schmitz notes in an earlier post, a furious effort is now being mounted to challenge the official proposal for an Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, DC.

It is the traditional site for official presidential inauguration services and has hosted funeral and memorial services for 10 U.S. presidents.

It is the traditional site for official presidential inauguration services and for funeral and memorial services for 10 of the 14 presidents of the United States since 1893.)

Yesterday marked the official opening of Montgomery, Alabama's new National Memorial for Peace and Justice, conceived and built by the Equal Justice Initiative.

The full official name of the day is «Yom ha - Zikaron la - Shoah v - la - gevurah,» or «Memorial Day for the Holocaust and for Heroism.»

It was this individual, private sense of memorial and remembrance that was emphasized by the official ceremony weekend before last.

Of course it is true that this system is being slowly broken down under the various modern pressures, but it remains an essential part of official Hinduism, and a lasting memorial to man's religious inhumanity to man.

In honor of Memorial Day, the «official» start of the summer season, I'm going to share a delicious frozen dessert.

With Memorial Day weekend in the books, July 4th quickly approaching and the official start of summer next week, healthy grilling is a hot topic (pun intended).

Memorial Day is the official start of burger season at my house.

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The outdoor pools at Palmer, Portage, Washington, Holstein and Piotrowski Parks that opened over the Memorial Day weekend are heated, Park District officials said.

The week of Memorial Day was her first official week off daycare due to being sick.

Hospital officials said the operation was successful and that Miles and Wolodkiewicz, who underwent surgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, are in recovery.

Park officials had hoped construction could be finished by Memorial Day, but the city, which is issuing the grant, will not give final approval of it until early summer, forcing a delay.

At 1 p.m., Hochul, DiNapoli, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, as well as law enforcement officials from across the state, onor 26 police officers who made the ultimate sacrifice at the annual Police Officers» Memorial Remembrance Ceremony, New York State Police Officers» Memorial, Empire State Plaza, Albany.

Onondaga County officials laid out tentative plans for an $ 8.5 million renovation of the War Memorial, including a few new details such as a VIP lounge styled after a military officers club.

Also at 11 a.m., Mayor Richard Thomas, the Mount Vernon Police Department and elected officials will hold the Police Memorial Day Award Ceremony, Mount Vernon City Hall steps.

At the end of the memorial service in Eldoret, President Buhari would proceed to Nairobi for bilateral talks on Thursday with Kenyan Government officials led by President Kenyatta.

At 2:45 p.m., Broome County Executive Jason Garnar and local elected officials join the Broome County Dog Shelter and the Binghamton Devils for an announcement, Floyd L. Maines Veterans Memorial Arena, i Stuart St., Binghamton.

Newly - elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has arrived for his first official engagement at the Battle of Britain memorial service at St Paul's Cathedral.

BY NATHAN RILEY A solemn ceremony bringing together leading AIDS organizations and advocates as well as public officials will mark World AIDS Day 2016, with the dedication of the New York City AIDS Memorial at the St. Vincent's Triangle Park.

Messer, who is running for New York's 16th senate district, announced his advocacy for Councilman Peter Koo's memorial in Flushing to the «Comfort Women» of World War II, according to an official statement.

Local and state officials gathered recently in Highland Park in Rochester to announce that the Warriors of Freedom Memorial Committee has met its fundraising goal for a memorial that will honor the men and women from the Greater Rochester area who lost their lives in the War onMemorial Committee has met its fundraising goal for a memorial that will honor the men and women from the Greater Rochester area who lost their lives in the War onmemorial that will honor the men and women from the Greater Rochester area who lost their lives in the War on Terror.

Astorino and Houlihan will be joined by dignitaries and other officials for the ceremony on Tuesday, June 21 at 11 a.m., at the Great Hunger Memorial Park in Irvington.

Officials with the state's Department of Financial Services announced on Sunday that they are in discussions with Memorial Sloan - Kettering to ensure access for up to one year, although how exactly that will be paid for has not yet been resolved.

Late Monday night, Howard County officials removed a Confederate memorial that had stood outside of a courthouse in Ellicott City, Md. «The more appropriate place for the memorial is in a museum,» said Alan H. Kittleman, the county executive, in a post on Facebook.

Many of the large artifacts including metal remnants from the original Twin Towers have already been installed, and officials with the National September 11 Memorial & Museum are excited by the opening.

Three mayoral candidates marched in the Little Neck - Douglaston Memorial Day Parade Monday, joining elected officials in the stream of people, horses and firetrucks flowing along Northern Boulevard.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Onondaga County officials today laid out tentative plans for an $ 8.5 million renovation of the War Memorial, including a few new details such as a VIP lounge styled after a military officers club.

In addition to the two East End routes, which currently operate between Memorial Day and Columbus Day, six other county routes will also be extended, officials said.

As a veteran I appreciated the county erecting a patriotic banner over the front entrance to the county office building in Kingston marking Memorial Day, less so because a senior official attached his name to it.

He said that the President also signed the official Anitkabir memorial Book of Honour at the Misaki - i Milli Kulesi (National Pact Tower), within the precincts of the mausoleum, and toured the museum.

Officials in Steuben County will be wrapping up its Police Officers Week Friday evening with its Annual Law Enforcement Memorial Service.

Rex Phillips, NASUWT National Official Wales, is among speakers at an event being organised today in Cardiff by Wales TUC to mark Workers» Memorial Day.

Officials at the National September 11 Memorial Museum in Manhattan said that one of their security guards should not have stopped a North Carolina middle school choir from singing the national anthem on the plaza last week.

The NYPD's Hall of Heroes in Manhattan will add a new memorial tablet for a steadily climbing list of police officers who have died from illnesses attributed to their work after the Sept. 11 attacks, officials said.

Police and the general manager of a Jewish cemetery in Brooklyn said that 42 fallen headstones were not caused by vandals, explaining the memorials had naturally tipped over due to age — though some elected officials were calling for an investigation, anyway.

At 12:30 p.m., Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone will be joined by the Long Island Association, Association for a Better Long Island, Suffolk County Alliance of Chambers, small business owners and local elected officials to sound the alarm against federal tax reform, H. Lee Dennison Building, 100 Veterans Memorial Highway, Hauppauge, Long Island.

While that was really never in doubt, the Onondaga County Legislature made it official on Tuesday by unanimously voting to approve $ 4.5 million in bonds for improvements to the Crunch's aging War Memorial.

Army / Air National Guard Veteran and Orange County Legislator, Dennis W.Simmons standing in front of their 9/11 Memorial, spoke in disbelief out how the Gadsden (which was Commissioned as an official Navy Jack on September 11th, 2002) can fly from any Naval ship but not in front of the Naval Armory in New Rochelle.

Residents and local officials are gathering for Memorial Day celebrations all across Central and Northern New York.

«We don't need a bridge to nowhere that will foul up Long Island Sound for generations,» Marcellino said during a news conference at Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park in Oyster Bay as a bevy of environmental and civic activists and current and former GOP and Democratic elected officials surrounded him.