Romania
Official Commemoration of Bucharest Pogrom Also Marking the 27th of January
The Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania organized, in cooperation with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and the Ministries of Justice, an official commemoration event on 25 January 2022. It...
How to Teach about the Holocaust in Schools
The Recommendations aim to deepen the understanding of the Holocaust by asking crucial questions concerning the historical context of the Holocaust, its scope and scale and why and how it happened....
What to Teach about the Holocaust
The Recommendations aim to deepen the understanding of the Holocaust by asking crucial questions concerning the historical context of the Holocaust, its scope and scale and why and how it happened...
Why Teach About the Holocaust
Considering how best to make any examination of the Holocaust meaningful and relevant for learners in their national contexts is essential. This section is meant to help policymakers, school...
Summary: Why, What, and How to Teach about the Holocaust
The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and murder of Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. A continent-wide genocide, it destroyed not only...
IHRA Recommendations for Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust
Each IHRA Member Country is committed to encouraging the study of the Holocaust in all its dimensions. However, teaching about this complex and sensitive topic appropriately – and adapting it to the...
Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Iasi Pogrom
On 28-30 June 2021, the Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Research of the Holocaust in Romania, in cooperation with the local authorities in Iasi and the Special Representative of the Romanian...
National Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations in Romania
9 October marks the day that deportations of Romanian Jews to Trandsniestria began in 1941. Today, it represents the date of National Holocaust Remembrance Day in Romania. Established by Government...
2020 IHRA Ministerial Declaration
As we mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of German Nazi concentration and extermination camps and other sites of persecution and murder, we, the High Governmental Representatives of the...
Romania commemorates National Holocaust Remembrance Day
On 9 October every year, Romania commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, by virtue of Government Decision 672 of 5 May 2004. The day signifies the beginning of the deportation of Romanian Jews to...