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.
Of the 140,000 Jews who lived in the Netherlands in 1940, 102,000 did not survive the war. Now, all their names are memorialized in the Holocaust Memorial of Names in the Netherlands.
Ambassador Tom Vraalsen, IHRA Chair during the Norwegian Presidency 2009-2010, passed away on 13 September 2021 at the age of 85.
The Monitoring Access to Holocaust Collections IHRA Project has made building partnerships and strengthening networks central to its approach.
On 9 September 2021, Slovakia commemorated the Memorial Day for Victims of the Holocaust and of Racial Violence.
The Safeguarding Sites Project aims to visit five sites over the course of five years to gain insight on best practice for site management and preservation of sites of the Holocaust and genocide of the Roma. This insight informs its Charter for Best Practice.
This year, the national project “The Road of Memory 1941-2021” will be organized from June to December, following the calendar of the destruction of Jewish communities in 36 individual towns and cities.
The National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism, established at the Austrian Parliament, is inviting individuals and groups from civil society to submit entries for the Simon Wiesenthal Prize.
Commemoration events play a significant role in advancing remembrance of this genocide and in countering anti-Roma discrimination.
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