INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE ALLIANCE
“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
In September 2016 the exhibition “Mass Shootings: The Holocaust From the Baltic to the Black Sea 1941-1944” opened at the Topography of Terror in Berlin.
The Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia, an IHRA grant recipient, is pleased to announce the launch of the database “Holocaust Memorial Places in Latvia”.
From 24 to 26 October 2016, the Holocaust Memorial Center for the Jews from Macedonia in Skopje, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science and the Memorial de la Shoah from Paris, France, organized a seminar entitled "Holocaust: Paradigm or starting point?"
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has developed the Words Into Action to Address Anti-Semitism project to strengthen the capacity of OSCE participating States and civil society to prevent and respond to antisemitism.
The European Jewish Congress’ Security and Crisis Center (SACC) opened its first office in Vienna with the attendance of over 70 security experts from 28 Jewish communities in Europe.
The International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen, Germany, is looking to fill a number of new positions. The positions range from Head of the Archival Description Department, to research assistants and archivists.
On 17 October the International Network Against Cyber Hate (INACH) will hold their annual conference on online hate speech in Brussels, focussing on the code of conduct signed in May 2016 between the EC and various tech companies.
On 20 October the IHRA Executive Secretary, Dr Kathrin Meyer, will attend the OSCE conference on tolerance and diversity in Berlin.
A new campaign launched by the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network(RAN) aims to provide an alternative to the appeal of narratives from extremist propaganda by collecting personal narratives of people affected by extremism and hate crimes.
October 9 has been the national Holocaust Remembrance Day in Romania since May 2004 and marks the day when the deportations of Romanian Jews to Transnistria started.