“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
Romania
IHRA Chair Sir Andrew Burns Country Visits October 2014
Tirana: President Nishani with Sir Andrew Burns
Athens: Sir Andrew Burns meets Kyriakos Virvidakis, Chairman of the Standing Committeeon Public Administration, Public Order and Justice.
Athens:clockwise, Dr Meyer, Andreas Koutsoumpas: Member of the Standing Committee on Public Administration, Public Order and Justice, Kyriakos Virvidakis: Chairman of the Committee, Sir Andrew and Konstantinos Triantafyllos: Committee on European Affairs
Athens: Meeting with the Head and member of the Standing Committee on Public Administration, Public Order and Justice
Bucharest: Commemorative Event at Holocaust Memorial
Bucharest: Sir Andrew speaking at the Holocaust Memorial
Photo: Sandu Caltia
Bucharest: Titus Corlatean, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Bucharest: Titus Corlatean, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Bucharest: Wreath at Holocaust Memorial
Bucharest: Parliamentary Session
Sofia: Sir Andrew Burns with Dr Soloman Passy, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Sofia: Sir Andrew with Daniel Mitov, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Chisinau: Sir Andrew with Iulian Groza, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Chisinau: Sir Andrew with Igor Grosu, Deputy Minister of Education
Chisinau: Sir Andrew at the Ghetto Memorial
Ankara: Sir Andrew Burns with the Deputy Minister of National Education Mr. Orhan Erdem
Ankara: Sir Andrew with Ambassador Tunç Üğdül, Director General on Research and Security
Ankara: Sir Andrew with Deputy Undersecretary, Ambassador Ümit Yalçın
Skopje: Sir Andrew with President Gjorge Ivanov
Skopje: Sir Andrew with Nikola Poposki, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Skopje: Sir Andrew with Abdilakim Ademi, Minister of Education
Skopje: Sir Andrew with Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikola Poposki
Skopje: Meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikola Poposki
Skopje: Holocaust Museum
Skopje: Sir Andrew with the Mrs Berta Romano Nikolikj, President of the Jewish Community
Vatican: Sir Andrew with the Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Bishop Marcel Sanchez Sorondo
Vatican: Sir Andrew with Deputy Secretary for States, Monsigneur Antione Camilleri
IHRA Chair Country Visits
On 16 October Sir Andrew arrived in the Vatican, where he had meetings with the Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Bishop Marcel Sanchez Sorondo and with the Deputy Secretary for States, Monsignor Antione Camilleri.
New Monument Unveiled in Cluj-Napoca
15.06.2014
A new monument commemorating the 70th anniversary of the 1944 deportations was unveiled in Cluj-Napoca, Romania on 27 May 2014.
First Public Holocaust Education Center Opens In Romania
22.05.2014
The “Holocaust Cellar,” located in the pre-war childhood home of Elie Wiesel in Sighet, Romania, opened on 18 May.
Delegation Members
Mihnea Constantinescu (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) - Head of Delegation
Felicia Waldman (Goldstein Goren Center for Hebrew Studies, University of Bucharest) – Deputy Head and Education Working Group
Irina Cajal Marin (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) – Museums and Memorials Working Group
Mihai Chioveanu (University of Bucharest, Faculty of Political Science) – Education Working Group
Adrian Cioflanca (Al. I. Cuza University of Iassy) – Academic Working Group
International Symposium on Mass Graves of the Holocaust
23.06.2011
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Yahad-In Unum in Paris, France, and the Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, in Bucharest, have co-organized an international scholarly symposium on Holocaust-era mass graves to coincide with the anniversary of the 1941 pogrom in Iasi, Romania.
Yad Vashem and Elie Wiesel Institute Sign Memorandum of Understanding
14.03.2013
On 10 March 2013, Yad Vashem and the Elie Wiesel Institute signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen the cooperation between their respective institutions, including in the fields of Holocaust education, documentation, commemoration and research.
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