“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
Poland
IHRA delegation visits Poland
At the Iasi Plenary Meetings, IHRA experts raised serious concerns about provisions in the existing and proposed legislation in Poland that could impact on Holocaust research. On the invitation of the Polish authorities, an IHRA expert working group visited Warsaw on 15 December to enter into dialogue with the relevant Polish stakeholders.
IHRA Chair visits Warsaw
On 5 October the IHRA Chair, Ambassador Mihnea Constantinescu, and IHRA Executive Secretary, Dr Kathrin Meyer, are participating in high level political meetings in Warsaw, Poland.
2 August Commemoration 2016
Survivor Raymond Gureme
Commemoration at Auschwitz-Birkenau
Roman Kwiatkowski, Roma Association of Poland, shakes hands with Christian Illedits, President of the Parliament of Burgenland
Young TernYpe partipants at the Auschwizt-Birkenau Commemoration
Chair of the IHRA Committee on the Genocide of the Roma, Martina Maschke, Chair of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma, Romani Rose, Minister of Education for Nordrhein-Westfalen, Sylvia Loehrmann
Commemoration at former Lodz ghetto
Austrian Roma memorial at Chlemno
Martina Maschke and Gerhard Baumgartner with President Christian Klippel and Director Andreas Sarközy (son of late Rudi Sarközy), Austrian Roma Culture Association, initiators of the Roma memorial in Chelmno
Unveiling of memorial by Roman Chojnacki and Christian Klippel
2 August Commemoration
Chair of the IHRA Committee on the Genocide of the Roma, Martina Maschke, and Committee member Gerhard Baumgartner, attended 2 August commemorations at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, at the former Łódź Ghetto as well as the unveiling of a new memorial to the Roma and Sinti victims in Chełmno on behalf of the IHRA.
Youth Day visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial
21.07.2016
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.
Commemoration: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 19 April 2016
Photo credit: Karolina Siemion-Bielska/MFA in Warsaw.
Photo credit: Karolina Siemion-Bielska/MFA in Warsaw.
Photo credit: Karolina Siemion-Bielska/MFA in Warsaw.
Photo credit: Karolina Siemion-Bielska/MFA in Warsaw.
Photo credit: Karolina Siemion-Bielska/MFA in Warsaw.
Photo credit: Karolina Siemion-Bielska/MFA in Warsaw.
Photo credit: Karolina Siemion-Bielska/MFA in Warsaw.
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
18.04.2016
19 April marks the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising which began as German troops and police began the liquidation of the ghetto.
"After the War"
13.04.2016
The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews invites university students from Poland, Germany and Israel to participate in the second edition of the international Polin Meeting Point – Summer Education School.
POLIN Conference on Jewish Cultural Heritage
24.03.2016
POLIN Museum, together with HL-Senteret, invites practitioners, museum professionals, artists, project-makers who work on Jewish cultural heritage to present and share their achievements, methods of work, and experiences.
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