“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
The CIC-NFB virtual classroom on Holocaust education, a Canadian initiative focusing on innovative approaches to teaching about the Holocaust, is now live.
On 16 December 2013, the Republic of Serbia organized a commemorative ceremony to mark the national remembrance day of the Roma genocide during World War II.
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) is offering a limited number of fellowships for Ph.D. and post doctoral candidates conducting research on the Holocaust.
On 2 December, the the joint antisemitism monitoring office of the Action and Protection Foundation and the Jewish Agency was formally opened in Budapest.
The Jewish community of Paraguay inaugurated a new Jewish museum in November that includes the country’s first Holocaust studies center.
On 26 November 2013, a workshop on the use of audio-visual tools in the teaching of Holocaust took place in Maribor, Slovenia.
The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) was delighted to unveil a special commemorative plaque in memory of The Cosmo restaurant, a famous meeting place for Jewish émigrés from Nazi oppression.
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.
The 2012 edition of Hate Crimes in the OSCE Region – Incidents and Responses, is the latest in a line of annual reports prepared by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) as part of the OSCE’s efforts to combat hate crime.
Former child refugees who came to Britain on Kindertransport commemorated the 75th anniversary of the debate in Parliament that led to their rescue on 20 November 2013 at an event organized by The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR).