INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE ALLIANCE
“We share a commitment to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and to honour those who stood against it.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
On Thursday 29 September the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre will launch access to the Visual History Archive.
As part of the their 75th anniversary celebrations The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) is delighted to announce that it unveiled a special commemorative plaque in honour of Sir Rudolf Bing at Glyndebourne on Wednesday 17 August.
From 8 Nov 2016 to Tue 17 Jan 2017 the Wiener Library will offer a ten-week evening course led by Professor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Kingston University, Philip Spencer.
On 6 September 2016 the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will hold the high-level event “Confronting Anti-Gypsyism - The role of political leaders in countering discrimination, racism, hate crimes and violence against Roma and Sinti communities” in Berlin.
Following the success of their Raphael Lemkin for Genocide Prevention seminars which first took place in 2008, the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (AIPR) has turned its sights towards Latin America, supported by the IHRA Grant Programme.
On September 7, 2016, the Missions of Canada, Israel, the United States, and Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations, will jointly host a full day forum on global Antisemitism.
In three lectures taking places in different locations in September, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum will examine the use of social media within the context of extremism.
On 8 September, the Wiener Library in London will host a lecture on the music of Theresienstadt by Professor Adam Gorb.
Garnethill Synagogue in Glasgow, Scotland, will become Scotland's first Jewish Heritage Centre.
On 2 August, Roma and Sinti Genocide Remembrance Day was commemorated in Croatia.