“We share a commitment to throw light on the still obscured shadows of the Holocaust.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
“We share a commitment to throw light on the still obscured shadows of the Holocaust.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
The opening session of the ITF Plenary meeting in The Hague included a film by Dutch students Zoë Hanselaar and Charlotte Bouwman that documented their experience on the 2011 Holocaust Memorial Tour.
Miloš Pojar, former ITF Chair during the 2007 Czech Chairmanship, died in Prague on Monday at age 71.
ITF Chair Karel de Beer participated in the wreath-laying ceremony in Belgrade on 27 January to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day along with Serbian President Boris Tadic.
UNESCO, in partnership with the Mémorial de la Shoah, is presenting a symposium entitled "International Dimensions of Holocaust Education" followed by a special ceremony with the theme "Children in the Holocaust" today in Paris.
On 27 March 2013 the travelling exhibit “Anne Frank – A History for Today” was opened at Nõmme High School in Tallinn, Estonia.
The new website “Canada and the Holocaust” by the Government of Canada is now online.
Under the auspices of Prime Minister Robert Fico, Poprad, Slovakia hosted a memorial event on 24 March for the victims of the first transport from Slovakia to Auschwitz.
On Monday, 11 March 2013, the Jewish community in Skopje marked the 70th anniversary of the deportation of 7,144 Jews.
On 10 March 2013, Yad Vashem and the Elie Wiesel Institute signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen the cooperation between their respective institutions, including in the fields of Holocaust education, documentation, commemoration and research.