News and events
Learn about recent IHRA activities and upcoming events.
26 Mar 2025
Time to read: 7 minutes, 30 seconds
The work must go on: 25 years of the Stockholm Declaration
This reflection looks back at the 2000 Stockholm Declaration, whose principles have shaped Holocaust education, research, and remembrance globally. While IHRA’s work has since grown to include new focus areas and tools, the Declaration remains a foundational document in building international commitment.
25 Sep 2022
Time to read: 2 mins
“Find Your Answers. Advancing Access to Holocaust-Related Material” Webinar
On 23 March 2022 the IHRA held a Zoom Webinar launching the recently adopted IHRA Guidelines for Identifying Relevant Documentation for Holocaust Research, Education and Remembrance.
21 Sep 2022
Time to read: 2 mins
Wiener Holocaust Library opens new exhibition on Jewish family photos before 1939
At Britain’s largest Holocaust archive, family photographs are providing a rare glimpse into a lost world. With its new exhibition, Jewish Family Photographs Before 1939, it brings together over 100 never-before-seen portraits and snapshots from twelve Jewish families in the 1890s through the 1930s.
15 Sep 2022
Time to read: 1 min
Slovakia commemorates the victims of the Holocaust
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.
13 Sep 2022
Time to read: 3 mins
How Holocaust sites can help societies navigate deafening silences
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.
08 Sep 2022
Time to read: 5 mins
Find Your Answers film nominated for award
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.
22 Aug 2022
Time to read: 1 min
Seminar for teachers held in Novi Sad, Serbia
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.”
25 Jul 2022
Time to read: 4 mins
What you can do to support Roma fleeing Ukraine and counter ongoing antigypsyism/anti-Roma discrimination
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.
12 Jul 2022
Time to read: 2 mins
Stumbling stones laid in Belgrade to commemorate Holocaust victims
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.
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