INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE ALLIANCE
“We share a commitment to throw light on the still obscured shadows of the Holocaust.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
On 22 July the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova issued a statement endorsing the Report of the International Commission for the study of the Holocaust presided by Elie Wiesel.
In March 2016, the IHRA released its second book, entitled "Bystanders, Rescuers or Perpetrators? The Neutral Countries and the Shoah'.
The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) was delighted to mark its 75th anniversary with a reception at the Wiener Library where AJR Chairman, Andrew Kaufman, announced the installation of a plaque in honour of Hans and Eva Reichmann.
On 31 July, the IHRA Chair, Ambassador Mihnea Constantinescu, attended the closing ceremony of the national competition "Holocaust Memory 2016” in Bucharest.
In 2014, the IHRA funded a two-year educational project by TernYpe International Roma Youth Network to support Roma and youth organizations in developing their commemorative events and activities related to the genocide of the Roma.
From 6 – 17 July 2016 the Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre conducted a Holocaust education tour for twenty-two Canadian educators, which included programs in Austria and Poland.
Erinnern.at calls for participants for a workshop to take place in January 2017 in Vienna on the localization of videotaped testimonies of victims of National Socialism in educational programs.
Within the framework of the Catholic Church's World Youth Day, up to 30,000 young people per day will visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum between 20-28 July.
The Presence of the Holocaust in society, politics and culture, c.1970 – 2015
From Tuesday 19th – Thursday 21st July 2016 the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education is hosting the annual British Association of Holocaust Studies (BAHS) conference. The conference will focus on the ‘Presence of the Holocaust’ in society, politics and culture since 1970 and explore the growth and development of Holocaust history and memory over the past four decades.
More information on the conference themes, how to submit a proposal to contribute and details of the keynotes can be found by clicking on the links to the right of this page.
The BAHS 2016 conference is organised and hosted by the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education at the UCL Institute of Education, in Bloomsbury, Central London.
On 20 July the IHRA Executive Secretary, Dr Kathrin Meyer, will present a paper on the topic of the Holocaust in the international political arena at the BAHS conference in London.
On May 16, the new National Holocaust Museum of the Netherlands opened its doors to the public in what used to be the reformed teaching training school in Amsterdam.