News and events
Learn about recent IHRA activities and upcoming events.
Learn about recent IHRA activities and upcoming events.
It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that the IHRA announces the passing of our Honorary Chairman, Professor Yehuda Bauer.
Established in 2001 by the Slovak Parliament, the Memorial Day for Victims of the Holocaust and of Racial Violence marks the date in 1941 when the Slovak government issued a decree on the legal status of Jews, the so-called the Jewish Codex.
On their trip to Lithuania, the IHRA Safeguarding Sites team learned more about how sites deal with the silences and taboos surrounding difficult history matters and used this experience to inform their forthcoming heritage charter.
Artist Malva Schalek’s story showing art as a form of resistance during the Holocaust became the focus of a short film, “Find Your Answers,” commissioned by the IHRA Project on Monitoring Access to Holocaust Collections.
Terraforming and The Olga Lengyel Institute (TOLI) are organizing the second annual seminar for teachers from the Republic of Serbia from 21-25 August in Novi Sad entitled “The Holocaust and Human Rights: Learning from the past – acting for the future.”
With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the famous poet Raisa Nabaranchuk found herself facing the difficult decision – whether or not to flee her home in Kyiv.
Belgrade’s installation of its first Stolpersteine, or “stumbling stones” remind passersby of a Belgrade family that faced unimaginable horrors during the Nazi occupation, and their murder at Staro Sajmište, the Old Fairground Camp.
Guided by the motto, “Together for impact,” more than 200 experts, political representatives, and representatives of international organizations and civil society met in Stockholm over the IHRA plenary in Stockholm to advance Holocaust remembrance.
Professor Yehuda Bauer, IHRA Honorary Chairman expresses concern about the recent statements dealing with Jews and antisemitism by the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, in answer to questions by an Italian journalist.
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