“Our commitment must be to remember the victims who perished, respect the survivors still with us, and reaffirm humanity's common aspiration for mutual understanding and justice.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
“Our commitment must be to remember the victims who perished, respect the survivors still with us, and reaffirm humanity's common aspiration for mutual understanding and justice.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
Find out what is happening on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in IHRA member and observer countries.
On 9 December in Florence, about 80 schoolchildren presented their works to commemorate the Holocaust as part of the national Italian competition "I giovani ricordano la Shoah" (Young people remember the Shoah).
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance is deeply concerned by the ongoing property dispute between the government of Moldova and the Jewish community of Moldova involving the Rabbi Tsirilson Synagogue and the Magen David Yeshiva.
Since 2012 the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) has been concerned with the potential impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on Holocaust research. While IHRA supports the EU decision to ensure the protection of personal data, the organization has always maintained that it is crucial that the right to be forgotten does not conflict with the responsibility to remember.
From 2-3 December IHRA is holding a roundtable in Hungary on challenges related to preparing Holocaust Memorial Days.
IHRA grant recipient, Political Capital Institute, has produced a video on antisemitism in Hungary.
What do we really know about Holocaust education? On what basis can we plan for the future?
While IHRA supports the EU decision to ensure the protection of personal data, it is crucial that the right to be forgotten does not conflict with the responsibility to remember.
On 4 November, IHRA was pleased to welcome Owen Pell, a Member of the Board of the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (AIPR), to present the Latin American Network for Genocide and Mass Atrocities Prevention to IHRA delegates.