INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE ALLIANCE
“We share a commitment to throw light on the still obscured shadows of the Holocaust.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
On 25 May 2016, IHRA Honorary Chairman Yehuda Bauer was awarded the National Order for Merit by the President of Romania, H.E. Klaus Iohannis.
On 6 May 2016, a commemorative event dedicated to the Queen Mother Elena of Romania, who was awarded with the title of righteous among nations for saving thousands of Jews during WWII, took place at the Choral Temple in Bucharest.
A special issues of Patterns of Prejudice edited by Dan Stone will focus on the 'refugee crisis' and European collective memory.
On Friday 10 June the Holocaust Research Centre Royal Holloway, University of London, will hold a one-day workshop entitled 'Gender, Sexuality and the Holocaust'.
“Terraforming South” from Serbia is awarded this year’s Yehuda Bauer Grant.
Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah in Hebrew) marked on 5 May.
From 18 to 22 of April 2016, the National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania „Elie Wiesel” joined the initiative of the Romanian Ministry of Education to organize a series of non-formal activities on Holocaust remembrance.
On 19 April a meeting of the European Parliament Working Group on Antisemitism was held in Brussels.
On 19 April the International Network Against Cyber Hate and the Israeli Students Combating Antisemitism organized an international conference on online antisemitism in Jerusalem.
19 April marks the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising which began as German troops and police began the liquidation of the ghetto.