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
The Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, has appointed Chairman of Yad Vashem Avner Shalev as Deputy Chairman of the International Auschwitz Council.
How do schools worldwide handle the Holocaust as a subject? In what areas of the world does the Holocaust form part of classroom teaching? Answers to these questions are to be provided by a project conducted by UNESCO and the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research.
Slovakia remembered the victims of the Holocaust in national commemoration events on 9 September.
23 September is the Day of Commemoration of the Victims of the Genocide of Lithuanian Jews.
The Saul Kagan Claims Conference Fellowship for Advanced Shoah Studies has been expanded to both Ph.D. and post doctoral candidates pursuing advanced Holocaust studies.
The United Nations marked the centenary of the birth of Raoul Wallenberg with a special event from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on 19 September 2012 to examine his mysterious disappearance after the Second World War and the legacy he left to humankind.
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has launched an online survey on Jewish people’s perceptions and experiences of antisemitism. The survey will be open until 30 September 2012.
Representatives of education ministries from 14 countries took part in UNESCO's first ever consultation on Holocaust and genocide education in sub-Saharan Africa. The meeting was held in Cape Town, South Africa, on 10 and 11 September.
On the occasion of the Paralymic Games being held in London, the Association of Jewish Refugees honored the life of Paralympic Games founder Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who emigrated to England from Germany on the eve of World War II.
On Tuesday, 4 September, the Memorial Dossin Barracks along with the new Museum Square and the Goswin de Stassartstraat were inaugurated in an opening ceremony attended by Minister-President Kris Peeters, Mayor of Mechelen Bart Somers, and ITF Chair Ambassador Jan Deboutte.