“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
Switzerland
IHRA Plenary Meetings, Geneva
IHRA Chair, Ambassador Benno Bättig
IHRA Executive Secretary, Dr. Kathrin Meyer
Plenary Session
IHRA in Geneva
From 26-29 June, 2017, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance holds its first bi-annual Plenary Meeting under the Swiss Chairmanship in Geneva.
IHRA Handover Ceremony, Swiss Embassy in Berlin, 7 March 2017
The event was opened by Swiss Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, Christine Schraner Burgener.
Ambassador Mihnea Constantinescu, IHRA Chair 2016
Ambassador Benno Bättig, IHRA Chair 2017
The IHRA publication “Research in Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust. A Dialogue Beyond Borders” was presented by the Chair of IHRA’s Education Research Project, Prof. Monique Eckmann and Dr Wolf Kaiser
The handover ceremony was closed by a musical performance by Karsten Troyke and Daniel Weltlinger
Ambassador Constantinescu officially hands over the IHRA Chairmanship to Ambassador Bättig
IHRA Conference on Education about the Holocaust
Christian Amsler, Government Council of the Canton of Schaffhausen
Monique Eckmann, Chair of the Education Research Project
Peter Gautschi, Director of the Department of History and Remembrance Culture, PH Luzern
Benno Baettig, incoming IHRA Chair 2017
Cecilie Stokholm Banke, Denmark
Michael Baier, Head of the Austrian Delegation to the IHRA
Doyle Stevick, USC College of Education and member of the IHRA Education Research Project
IHRA Conference on Education about the Holocaust
IHRA's international research conference on education about the Holocaust took place at the PH Luzern University of Teacher Education from 15-16 February 2016.
IHRA Conference on Education about the Holocaust
15 Feburary marked the opening of the IHRA international research conference on education about the Holocaust, in Lucerne, Switzerland.
IHRA Country Reports Published
Read the 2015 Latvian, Norwegian and Swiss country reports on national Holocaust education, research and remembrance activities.
IHRA's Conference on Education about the Holocaust
24.11.2015
What do we really know about Holocaust education? On what basis can we plan for the future?
Switzerland to Chair the IHRA in 2017
On 5 November IHRA's 31 member countries accepted Switzerland's candidacy for the chairmanship of the IHRA in 2017.
Switzerland Launches a New Web Portal on Nazi Looted Art
19.06.2013
An international conference (program) was organized in Berne on 17 June 2013 to introduce a new web portal on Nazi looted art.
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