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 11 June, ten pieces of hateful graffiti in Hebrew were discovered in the open campus of Yad Vashem, a large part scrawled across the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto Square monument.
The World Memory Project, a joint initiative by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry.com, has made information from three new collections searchable online.
The Ministry of Culture, Media and Information Society of Serbia, with the support and participation of the UNESCO Venice Office, is hosting an international meeting of experts on "Holocaust education and museum development in South-East Europe: renewing the "Ex-Yugoslav" Pavilion in Auschwitz-Birkenau" on 4 June in Belgrade at the Museum of Yugoslav History.
The National Society of French Railways (SNCF) signed an agreement with Yad Vashem on 23 May 2012 to increase research into the scope of deportations of Jews from France during the Holocaust.
Ambassador Jan Deboutte visited Israel last week in his capacity as ITF Chair.
The Greek Government's spokesman Minister Pantelis Kapsis issued a statement on 14 May denouncing the comments from the Golden Dawn party.
Zagreb will present the 6th annual Jewish Film Festival from 20-26 May 2012.
On 19 April 2012, the date of Yom Hashoah, a conference entitled "The Contributions of Jewish Scientists to Turkish Universities" was held in Bahçeşehir University Istanbul.
The exhibition "Anne Frank - A History for Today" opened at Kadir Has University in Istanbul.
The "Train of 1000" arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau on 8 May to commemorate the date of the liberation of Europe.