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 13 July, students participating in the Leo Baeck Sumer University visited the IHRA Permanent Office to speak with Dr Kathrin Meyer, IHRA Executive Secretary.
The Iranian government has continuously blocked a Persian-language website dedicated to educating on the Holocaust, the US Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor said in its 2014 annual report on human rights practices.
A new book on football and antisemitism in Poland has been launched at an international conference organized by the Anne Frank House at Amsterdam Arena, the stadium of Ajax Amsterdam.
Sir Nicholas Winton, who arranged for trains to carry hundreds of children out of occupied Prague, has passed away aged 106.
From 28 to 30 June 2015, five memorials on the sites of mass graves were inaugurated in western Ukraine. The memorials were planned, implemented and erected by an international coalition which is run by the AJC (American Jewish Committee).
The Holocaust Educational Trust has offered to work with two students recenly caught stealing fragments of hair clippers, buttons and a piece of a spoon from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.
A joint concert was held by the Glass House Orchestra and the Hungarian ensemble Muzsikás Együttes to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust.
On 16 June in Lisbon the IHRA Chair, Szabolcs Takács, attended the conference "Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust".
The Consulate General of Hungary in Subotica, Serbia organised a conference entitled ”Messages of the Past – Jewish Remembrances” on 16 June 2015 to commemorate the deportations of Jews in 1944.
On 19 May, 2015, 'the Holocaust Memorial Center of the Jews from Macedonia' implemented a school project in the framework of the fight against discrimination and violence, entitled "Em bashka, em barabar".