“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
Switzerland
Meeting with Roma Representatives in Switzerland
05.12.2017
On 28 November 2017, within the framework of the IHRA Plenary meeting in Bern, the IHRA Committee on the Genocide of the Roma hosted a discussion with eight organizations representing Roma in Switzerland. Participants included representatives of the following organizations: Verein Romano Dialog, Rroma Foundation, Roma Visionen Konkret Association, Association of the Swiss Sinti and Roma, Roma Jam Session Art Kollektiv, and Association J.M.S (Jenische, Manouche, Sinti).
The discussion during the meeting focused on education about the Holocaust and genocide of the Roma, and the relationship between this history and topics such as racism, and stereotypes against Roma in the media and in the public arena.
Bern Plenary Meetings
IHRA Chair, Ambassador Benno Baettig
Smaller Holocaust memorials - an often overlooked practice of remembrance
04.12.2017
"It is a little known fact that in Switzerland more than 50 mainly smaller monuments recall the Shoah. While large memorials deal with the history of the Second World War and the Shoah in neighboring countries, Switzerland hosts mostly discreet signs of memory, telling small stories."
From 27 - 30 November, 2017, the biannual IHRA Plenary Meeting held in Switzerland convened delegations from 31 Member Countries and provided a unique opportunity to learn about and discuss projects and challenges within the field of Holocaust education, remembrance, and research.
Countering Distortion
On 30 November, 2017, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance successfully concluded its second bi-annual Plenary Meeting under the Swiss Chairmanship in Bern with the consensus adoption of an organizational strategy prioritizing countering distortion and safeguarding the historical record, including sites, testimony and archival materials.
Conference: Mass Murder of People with Disabilities and the Holocaust, 26 November 2017, Bern
Brigitte Bailer, IHRA Delegate and conference organizer, opens the conference
Ambassador Benno Bättig, IHRA Chair, addresses participants of the conference
Andrea Schweizer, Deputy Director, Pädagogische Hochschule Bern
Regula Argast (PH Bern): Swiss Eugenics and its Implication in Nazi Racial Hygiene
Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University): Reconstructing the Lives, Deaths and Body Part Histories of the Victims of Nazi "Euthanasia" Killings in Germany and Annexed Austria
Yehuda Bauer, IHRA Honorary Chairman
Jan Erik Schulte (Gedenkstätte Hadamar, Germany)
IHRA Delegate Karel Berkhoff
Wichert ten Have
Cecile aan de Stegge: New data on the mortality in Dutch psychiatric institutions 1940-1945
IHRA Delegate Robert Williams
Cecile aan de Stegge
Brigitte Bailer
Fragmented Remembrance
On 26 November 2017, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) successfully concluded a conference in Bern, Switzerland, on the murder of people with disabilities and the Holocaust together with the Paedagogische Hochschule Bern and the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland.
The Last Swiss Holocaust Survivors
17.11.2017
On 16 November, 2017, the acting IHRA Chair, François Wisard, presented the Swiss Chairmanship’s projects and the IHRA’s latest activities to ambassadors of IHRA Member Countries and others on the occasion of a special tour of the exhibition “The Last Swiss Holocaust Survivors”. The event was organized by the Gamaraal foundation, headed by Anita Winter, who came up with the concept for the travelling exhibition, which was also displayed the IHRA Plenary in Geneva.
Holocaust Education, Youth and Social Media
15.11.2017
On 6 December 2017, the Swiss Embassy to the United States will hold a panel discussion entitled "Holocaust Education, Youth and Social Media" within the framework of the Swiss Chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. The event is hosted by Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States, Dr Martin Dahinden and includes the participation of Head of the United States Delegation to the IHRA, Thomas Yazdgerdi.
Murder of People with Disabilities
On 26 November 2017, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance will hold a conference in Bern, Switzerland, on the murder of people with disabilities and the Holocaust together with the Paedagogische Hochschule Bern and the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland.
IHRA Concludes Plenary Meetings in Geneva
On 29 June, 2017, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) successfully concluded its first bi-annual Plenary Meeting under the Swiss Chairmanship in Geneva.
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