“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
IHRA Delegation visits Holy See
14.10.2016
On 13 October an IHRA delegation headed by IHRA Chair, Ambassador Mihnea Constantinescu, attended meetings with representatives of the Holy See in the Vatican.
The meetings took place in the Vatican and focused on plans to hold a possible joint conference on the topic of refugees in the near future. The delegation comprised the IHRA Chair, Ambassador Mihnea Constantinescu, Head of the Austrian Delegation to the IHRA, Ambassador Michael Baier, Austrian Ambassador to the Holy See, Dr Alfons Kloss.
The Holy See was represented at the International Stockholm Forum on the Holocaust in 2000.
Image: (l-r) Secretary of the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, Father Norbert Hofmann, IHRA Chair, Ambassador Mihnea Constantinescu, Austrian Ambassador to the Holy See, Dr Alfons Kloss, Monsignor Paul Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States, Head of the Austrian Delegation to the IHRA, Ambassador Michael Baier.