“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
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Holocaust Education outside IHRA Member Countries at the Salzburg Global Seminar
18.03.2015
Following the third Salzburg Global Seminar on Holocaust and Genocide Prevention, Salzburg Global has compiled information on Holocaust education in non-IHRA countries. The information is available on a dedicated section of the Salzburg Global website.
‘The Suppressed Years’ Austrian Railway exhibition on complicity in the Holocaust
17.11.2014
Austria’s national railway company, Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB), has opened an exhibition at the European Parliament documenting their complicity in the Holocaust.
The Vienna Project: Closing Ceremony and Naming Memorial
13.10.2014
In remembrance of the thousands of Austrian victims of National Socialism, representing seven victim groups, The Vienna Project team invites you to attend their Closing Ceremony on 18 October at the Austrian National Library at the Hofburg Palace, Vienna.
Call for Papers: Simon Wiesenthal Conference 2014
19.06.2014
The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) in cooperation with the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) calls for papers for the Simon Wiesenthal Conference taking place from 4-6 December 2014.
Austria Commemorates 75th Anniversary of the November 1938 Pogroms
09.11.2013
A number of commemorative events were held in Austria to mark the 75th anniversary of the November 1938 pogroms. Under the initiative of Barbara Prammer, President of the National Council of Austria, a website was created to list all commemorations taking place around Austria.
Call for Papers: Simon Wiesenthal Conference 2013
28.05.2013
The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies invite applications for an interdisciplinary conference on complicity and collaboration in World War II and the Holocaust in the Eastern part of Europe.
5th Dialogforum Mauthausen
08.05.2013
The 5th Dialogforum Mauthausen took place on 6 and 7 May, focusing on the functions of a memorial site as a place of education and commemoration.
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