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
On 5 October 2012, the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens hosted a conference entitled "Never, Ever Be a Bystander."
The "Portugal and the Holocaust" conference is being held on 29-30 October 2012 at the Calouste Gulbenkian's Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal.
The conference's goal is to increase the body of academic knowledge, promote an understanding of the Holocaust and Portugal's role during that period, and to support Holocaust education in Portugal.
This conference brings together leading American, Portuguese, and other European specialists, scholars, and educators in the field.
The Estonian Museum of Occupations, in collaboration with the Swedish Embassy in Estonia, has organized the exhibition "To me there's no other choice" at the Museum of Occupations in Tallinn, Estonia.
The Sinti and Roma Memorial was inaugurated in Berlin on 24 October 2012 by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
An agreement on cooperation in the field of education, remembrance and research on Holocaust was signed in Paris on 10 October 2012 by Jacques Fredj, director of the Mémorial de la Shoah, Nataša Jovičić, director of the Jasenovac Memorial Site, and Vinko Filipović, director of the Education and Teacher Training Agency.
The Living History Forum, in partnership with the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is holding a conference on Raoul Wallenberg in Stockholm from October 18-19 2012.
The Council of Europe will hold a symposium entitled "Holocaust in Thessaloniki" on 17-18 October 2012.
On 21 September 2012, French President François Hollande inaugurated the Shoah Memorial in Drancy.
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide in London formally opens a new exhibition today entitled "Rescues of the Holocaust: Remembering Raoul Wallenberg and Lives Saved."
Helsinki University Summer School's second Holocaust-related course, "Introduction to Holocaust and Genocide Studies," was held in Helsinki, Finland in August 2012.