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IHRA Chair speaks at United Nations General Assembly
On 28 January, 2019, IHRA Chair, Ambassador Sandro De Bernardin, delivered a statement at the annual observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust in...
Sites at Risk: Guidelines for Best Practice
On 1 February, 2019, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance will begin its project ‘Sites at Risk: Guidelines for Best Practice’ under its five-year priority theme ‘Countering Holocaust...
Crimes Uncovered: The First Generation of Holocaust Researchers
The Wiener Library’s spring 2019 exhibition, Crimes Uncovered: The First Generation of Holocaust Researchers, traces the stories and legacies of the individuals and institutions who first collected...
Holocaust Remembrance Day in Skopje
On 28 January 2019, on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Nikola Dimitrov, and Austrian...
Luxembourg’s second synagogue: Unveiling of commemorative plaque
In the presence of Prime Minister Xavier Bettel and Minister of Education Claude Meisch, a commemorative plaque of the Grand Duchy’s second synagogue was unveiled on November 9, 2018. Conceived by...
“The Holocaust as a starting point: comparing and sharing II”
Following the positive assessments and results from the first seminar organized in Thessaloniki in October 2017, around forty teachers from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Greece (twenty...
Launch of educational app: “Fleeing the Holocaust. My encounter with refugees."
On 28 November, 2018, during the IHRA Plenary meeting in Ferrara, Werner Dreier, Director of erinnern.at, presented the app "Fleeing the Holocaust" during a meeting of IHRA's Education Working Group....
Central Teachers‘ Seminar organized in Austria
Co-Heads of the Austrian Delegation to the IHRA, Hannah Lessing and Michael Baier, represented the IHRA at this year’s Central Teachers‘ Seminar organized by the Austrian Holocaust Education Platform...
IHRA successfully concludes meetings in Ferrara
On 29 November, 2018, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) successfully concluded its second bi-annual Plenary Meeting under the Italian Chairmanship in the beautiful Castello...
Europe beyond antisemitism and anti-Zionism – securing Jewish life in Europe
On 21 November, 2018, Heads of the Austrian Delegation to the IHRA, Hannah Lessing and Michael Baier, represented the IHRA at a High-Level Conference “Europe beyond antisemitism and anti-Zionism –...