“We share a commitment to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and to honour those who stood against it.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
“We share a commitment to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and to honour those who stood against it.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
Hungarian IHRA Chair Szabolcs Takács announced in Debrecen (Hungary) that the IHRA would hold its plenary meetings in Budapest and Debrecen.
The second European Summer School, “Prejudice, Genocide, Remembrance," will take place in Budapest organized by the Tom Lantos Institute with the Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Education and Psychology (Budapest), and CEJI – a Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe (Brussels).
The Prime Minister's Office of Hungary has issued a statement condemning the "babaric deeds" of those who desecrated the Jewish cemetery in Gyöngyös, Hungary.
Watch a video of the IHRA Handover. On 9 March 2015, Hungary assumed the Chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
Hungary commemorated Roma and Sinti Genocide Remembrance Day in a number of memorial events held throughout the country.
The Tom Lantos Institute (Budapest), the Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Education and Psychology (Budapest), and CEJI – A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe (Brussels) are organizing a European Summer School on “Prejudice, Genocide, Remembrance” from 25-29 August 2014 for civil servants, educators, journalists, and civil society representatives.
Central European University, Tom Lantos Institute, and the University of Victoria organized the conference “The Future of Holocaust Memorialization: Confronting Racism, Antisemitism, and Homophobia through Memory Work” on 10-11 June.
A memorial to Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was inaugurated on 17 June in central Budapest.
Based on a 2000 Parliamentary decision, Holocaust Memorial Day has been commemorated on April 16 in Hungary since 2001.