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Last update - 12:13 27/01/2008 Muslim group to take part in U.K. Holocaust Memorial Day By Cnaan Liphshiz Tags: Islam, Israel, Holocaust  For the first time ever, representatives of Great Britain's largest Muslim umbrella organization will take part Sunday in the international Holocaust Memorial Day. Two months ago, the Muslim Council of Britain (MBC) decided to put an end to their six year boycott of the Memorial Day. The international Remembrance Day was first instituted by the UN in 2001 on the day - January 27th - that the Auschwitz extermination camp was liberated by the Allied forces. "More than 60 years after the liberation of Belsen, Treblinka and Auschwitz, and as the last of the survivors now grow old, we simply cannot afford to forget," British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in a letter publicized in the London Telegraph Sunday. "Each generation must learn and understand the dark forces and culpable failures that allowed prejudice, discrimination and persecution to lead to a vast programme of mass slaughter that spanned a continent." Advertisement Brown noted that 4000 British students are expected to visit the Auschwitz death camp next year. The official ceremony will take place in Liverpool, however their will be commemorative ceremonies through out the country. U.K. chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams will speak at the memorial service. The MBC's decision to take part in the memorial day comes after they were harshly criticized of anti-Semitism by Jewish groups and the British government. "The decision was taken because staying away was doing more harm than good and being misconstrued," a MCB spokesperson told The London Times last month. TAU musicians to play at UN for Holocaust Day Three years after the United Nations inaugurated International Holocaust Memorial Day, the General Assembly in New York has invited 90 musicians from Tel Aviv University to perform in a special ceremony to take place tomorrow. The orchestra, conducted by Zubin Mehta, includes several new immigrants. One of them is 24-year-old Julia Garfinkel, who immigrated to Israel one and a half years ago from New York. Advertisement Garfinkel says that despite all the dignitaries who will hear her play, her main audience will be her grandparents, Ilse and Walter Loeb - both of them Holocaust survivors living in the United States. Julia's parents and sister will also be on hand. Prof. Tomer Lev, head of the university's Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, said the concert will include "Psalms" by Paul Ben-Haim and "Kol Nidre" by Max Bruch for violoncello and orchestra. Lev said the orchestra will play Symphony no. 5 by Beethoven - whose four-note motif the BBC had used during World War II to introduce its radio news broadcasts because it evoked the Morse code letter V, for victory. Related articles: U.K. Muslim group ends boycott of Holocaust Memorial Day British gov't secretary urges action on Muslim extremism More Jewish World news and features Bookmark to del.icio.us   Kitler Cat Germany's Green Party uses a cat resembling Hitler to criticize extreme rightists. Sorrymania Israel is reportedly planning to apologize to ex-Beatles for banning a concert in 1965.   1.   Evil Exist And Must Be Resisted , For 60 years Arabs Leaders 12:38  |  Joseph . 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