“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
IHRA’s Directory of Experts is a list of IHRA delegates with specific areas of expertise who are willing to speak with the media.
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) is the only intergovernmental body devoted specifically to Holocaust education, remembrance and research. IHRA consists of an extensive network of international experts appointed by their national governments to the delegations of IHRA’s 31 member countries and five observer countries.
Interested journalists are requested to contact IHRA’s Permanent Office (info [at] holocaustremembrance.com, +49 30 2630 6660) to be put in touch with the relevant experts.
Inclusion in the Directory of Experts is voluntary. Please note that this is not a comprehensive list of all IHRA delegates.
Delegation of Canada - Education Working Group
Areas of Expertise: First person Holocaust survivor memoirs, Holocaust Education in Canada, New media and Holocaust education
Languages: English, French
Delegation of Greece - Museums and Memorials Working Group
Areas of Expertise: Holocaust Education, specifically in Greece
Languages: English, Greek
Delegation of the Netherlands - Education Working Group
Areas of Expertise: The Holocaust in Germany and the Netherlands, Holocaust and Genocide Education
Languages: Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish
Delegation of the Netherlands - Academic Working Group
Areas of Expertise: The Holocaust in the eastern Europe and the Netherlands
Languages: Dutch, English, German, French, Russian, Ukrainian
Delegation of Belgium - Museums and Memorials Working group
Areas of Expertise: Holocaust and genocide studies, criminology, perpetrator behavior
Languages: Dutch, English
Delegation of Canada - Education Working Group
Areas of Expertise: Roma History and Diaspora, Hate Speech and racially motivated violence targeting Roma, Roma Genocide during the Holocaust, Roma Displaced Persons and Refugees, current Neo-Nazism and White Nationalism in the EU, contemporary anti-Gypsyism / Romaphobia (North America and Europe)
Languages: English, Hungarian, Romanes
Claims Conference (Permanent International Partner of IHRA) - Academic Working Group
Areas of Expertise: Looted art, Judaica, and other cultural property, Property restitution, Funding of Holocaust education, remembrance and research
Languages: English, French, Russian
Delegation of the Netherlands - Museums and Memorials Working Group/ Committee on Holocaust, Genocide and Crimes against Humanity
Areas of Expertise: Holocaust exhibition curator, Holocaust commemoration in the Netherlands, Holocaust education in the field of memorials and museums
Languages: Dutch, English, Hebrew
Delegation of Belgium - Academic Working Group
Areas of Expertise: The Holocaust in Belgium, Holocaust and Human Rights education in the field of memorials and museums; political history of Belgium
Languages: Dutch, French, English
Delegation of United Kingdom- Museums and Memorials Working Group
Areas of Expertise: Holocaust and genocide commemoration
Languages: English
Delegation of United Kingdom - Communication Working Group
Areas of Expertise: Holocaust era restitution and compensation, advising survivors and family members to claim reparations and assets.
Languages: English
Delegation of the Netherlands - Education Working Group/ Committee on the Genocide of the Roma
Areas of Expertise: The Holocaust in the Netherlands, Holocaust education in the field of memorials and museums, genocide of the Roma and Sinti
Languages: Dutch, English
Delegation of Denmark - Education Working Group
Areas of Expertise: Holocaust education in Denmark, History of the Danish Jews during the Holocaust
Languages: Danish, English, German
Delegation of Austria - Museums and Memorials Working Group
Areas of Expertise: The Holocaust in European memory
Languages: English, German
Delegation of Romania - Communication Working Group
Areas of Expertise: Holocaust education
Languages: English, Romanian, Italian
Delegation of Belgium - Academic Working Group
Areas of Expertise: The Holocaust in Belgium, European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, Archival access, Post-war return of Jewish life to Antwerp, History of Antwerp Jewish community
Languages: Dutch, French, English, German
Delegation of Romania - Education Working Group
Areas of Expertise: Romanian Jewish History and Heritage, Holocaust education and remembrance in Romania, and the Romanian Holocaust in film and theatre
Languages: English, Romanian
Delegation of the United States - Museums and Memorials Working Group
Areas of Expertise: Antisemitism, Holocaust denial
Languages: English, Hebrew
Delegation of Germany - Academic Working Group
Areas of Expertise: Solidarity and help for Jews and Jewish emigration during the Nazi period, Jewish Displaced Persons, Holocaust denial, contemporary antisemitism
Languages: German, English, Italian
Delegation of the United States - Academic Working Group
Areas of Expertise: Propaganda, Holocaust in Central Europe, Nationalism, Political Culture, Contemporary Antisemitism (Europe and US), Foreign Relations (cold war through present), Holocaust Memory, Archival Access
Languages: English, German, French, basic Russian, basic Italian