“Our commitment must be to remember the victims who perished, respect the survivors still with us, and reaffirm humanity's common aspiration for mutual understanding and justice.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
“Our commitment must be to remember the victims who perished, respect the survivors still with us, and reaffirm humanity's common aspiration for mutual understanding and justice.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
UNESCO has produced a new brochure entitled "Why Teach Holocaust Education?"
The Council of Europe, a Permanent Observer to IHRA, is organizing a European training workshop for teachers in coordination with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and the Pedagogical University of Cracow.
Hungary is to provide funding to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation as part of the Holocaust Memorial Year in Hungary in 2014, and will also take part in the Foundation's International Committee.
On 30 July the President of the Republic of Latvia Andris Bērziņš and President of the State of Israel Shimon Peres opened a memorial to one of Latvia’s most notable rescuers of Jews during World War II, Žanis Lipke.
On 1 August Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė together with President Shimon Peres of Israel, who is currently on a state visit to Lithuania, honored the memory of the victims of the Holocaust at the Paneriai Memorial.
The United Nations Outreach Programme has published a paper by IHRA Chair Dr. Mario Silva in their Discussion Papers Journal series.
The Action and Protection Foundation in Budapest has launched a new program to monitor antisemitism.
The conference “Judaism and Education: Institutions, Curriculum, and Innovative Practices” will take place in Montreal, Canada from 2-4 October 2013.
The conference "Civil Society: Reactions to the Holocaust" will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark from 30 September to 2 October 2013.