Ambassador Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi
Head of the Argentinian Delegation to the IHRA
Member country since: 2002
Remembrance Days: 27 January (International Holocaust Remembrance Day)
Cecilia Meirovich (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) – Deputy Head of the Argentinian Delegation to the IHRA
Beatriz Dragovetsky de Nemirovsky (Jewish Community in Argentina) – Education Working Group
Julio Schlosser (Jewish Community in Argentina) – Education Working Group
María Celeste Adamoli (Ministry of Education) – Education Working Group
Adriana Regina Roisenstraj (Ministry of Education) – Education Working Group
Héctor Shalom (Anne Frank House) – Education Working Group
Andrea Gualde (Ministry of Justice, Security and Human Rights) – Committee on the Holocaust, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
David Stalman (Delegation of Argentinian Jewish Associations) – Committee on the Holocaust, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Valeria Levin (BAMA Foundation) – Committee on the Genocide of the Roma
Ana Diamant (ICUF) – Academic Working Group
Ariel Gelblung (Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Latin America)
Cristina Gómez Giusto (Ministry of Education) – Education Working Group
Emmanuel Kahan (National Council for Scientific and Technological Research)
Jonathan Karszenbaum (The Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires) – Museums and Memorials Working Group
Jorge Knoblovits (Delegation of Argentinian Jewish Organizations)
Argentina is committed to the promotion and protection of human rights as a guiding principle and state policy. We believe that the participation of our country in the IHRA, as the only Latin American member, is key not only for maintaining remembrance of the Shoah, but also for preventing genocides and facing present challenges in upholding truth and justice. It is essential to work along side civil society organizations, and other key actors to strengthen these policies.