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Education officials stress need to combat antisemitism in schools at OSCE/ODIHR meeting
19.11.2010

Schools across the OSCE region must step up efforts to combat antisemitism through education, said participants in an OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) meeting for education ministry officials and experts held in Vienna.

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EHRI launches in Brussels
17.11.2010

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) is an EU project which aims to centralize Holocaust archives, combining them into a single online database. Materials from twenty research institutions, libraries, archives, museums and memorial sites from eleven EU member states as well as Norway and Israel will be brought together and made accessible to scientists, teachers and students.

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Mémorial de la Shoah and USHMM Convene International Symposium on Genocide Prevention
11.11.2010

The Mémorial de la Shoah in cooperation with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum will convene an international symposium to assess governments' current capacities to effectively respond to genocide and mass atrocities and to recommend strategies to enhance international cooperation.

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Ottawa Protocol on combating Antisemitism
11.11.2010

Parliamentarians from across the world, convened this week in Ottawa, Canada, for the second Conference and Summit of the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism. The Summit reaffirmed the London Declaration on Combating Antisemitism and issued the Ottawa Protocol as an international declaration in response to the alarming increase of world-wide antisemitism.

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Austrian Documentaries Presented at Canadian Conferences
11.11.2010

Last week at the Ottawa Conference on Combating Antisemitism, the Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism and the Austrian Embassy Ottawa organized the screening of the Austrian film documentary "Estranged Passengers - In Search of Viktor Ullmann". Also last week dring the Holocaust Education Week in Toronto, the Austrian Embassy and the Cultural Forum Ottawa presented the Austrian documentary "The Man on the Balcony" by Kurt Brazda.

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Austrian model of Hartheim Castle exhibited in the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
10.11.2010

On 5 November 2010 a model of Schloss Hartheim (Hartheim Castle) in Upper Austria was handed over to the Ambassador of the United States of America in Vienna, William Carlton Eacho, by the Secretary General for European and International Affairs, Johannes Kyrle, in the Foreign Ministry in Vienna/ Austria.

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Book: Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain 1933-1970
08.11.2010

Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain 1933-1970: Their Image in ‘AJR Information' (Vallentine Mitchell, 2009), by Dr Anthony Grenville, is the first history of the refugees who fled to Britain from the German-speaking lands after 1933. Its main source of material is the monthly journal of the Association of Jewish Refugees, the refugees' own organisation, which has been appearing since 1946.

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Visas for Freedom: Spanish diplomats and the Holocaust
28.10.2010

The exhibition "Visas for Freedom" sponsored by Casa Sefarad-Israel and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain, has travelled to Venezuela for the first time.

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ITF Outreach Roundtable in Kiev
26.10.2010

On 25 and 26 October 2010 the ITF launched a pilot program for outreach in Ukraine. Officials from the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as representatives from numerous NGOs active in the fields of Holocaust education, remembrance, and research in Ukraine, were invited to attend.

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Online Database of Stolen Artworks Launched
21.10.2010

The Conference for Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum have launched a digitized online database of over 20,000 artworks stolen by the Nazis.

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