“We share a commitment to throw light on the still obscured shadows of the Holocaust.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
ITF Mourns the Death of Miloš Pojar
25.01.2012
Miloš Pojar, former ITF Chair during the 2007 Czech Chairmanship, died in Prague on Monday at age 71.
During his Chairmanship, Pojar successfully led the ITF through a period of many changes in the organization.
Pojar served as post-communist Czechoslovakia's first ambassador to Israel and was also the Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the Holocaust Era Assets Conference held in Prague in 2009.
As Czechoslovakia's first ambassador to Israel following the 1989 Velvet Revolution, Pojar oversaw the re-establishment of relations between Prague and Israel. His son Tomas currently serves as the Czech Republic's ambassador to Israel.
"Above all, we owe him the work he carried out for Czechoslovak and Czech relations with Israel, and also Czech-German relations," Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg said in a statement. "As first Czechoslovak ambassador to Israel he significantly contributed to the deepening of our relations."