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.
02 Dec 2021
Time to read: 1 min
Conference registration open for “Jasenovac Past and Present“
Recent scholarship has allowed for international experts to approach a consensus on life and death in the Jasenovac camp complex, which will form the focus of an upcoming online conference, Jasenovac Past and Present: History and Memory of Institutionalized Destruction, to be held on 15–17 December 2021.
11 Nov 2021
Time to read: 4 mins
First Stolperstein for Roma installed in Zagreb, Croatia
On 5 November 2021, the Center for Promotion of Tolerance and Holocaust Remembrance in Zagreb installed the first Stolperstein, “stumbling stone,” in memory and remembrance of victims of the genocide of the Roma.
11 Nov 2021
Time to read: 5 mins
IHRA Secretary General addresses Global Conference on Football’s Role in Combating Antisemitism
IHRA Secretary General Kathrin Meyer gave a keynote address, discussing the major impact that football clubs have had on the fight against antisemitism, and how they can continue to help counter it.
10 Nov 2021
Time to read: 2 mins
The IHRA launches new resources and grows its membership at Thessaloniki Plenary
Held on the anniversary of the 1938 November Pogroms, the Thessaloniki meetings focused on countering Holocaust distortion, facilitating access to Holocaust collections, and growing the IHRA membership.
08 Nov 2021
Time to read: 1 min
Webinar on Holocaust Distortion: Understanding a Growing Threat
On 8 November, the IHRA presented the twelve-minute explanatory film Holocaust Distortion: A Growing Threat and the publication Holocaust Distortion: Contexts, Influences, and Examples in its webinar on Holocaust distortion. Using examples from various countries, it explains how distortion and its various manifestations threaten Holocaust memory today.
05 Nov 2021
Time to read: 6 mins
Commemoration Events for the November Pogrom
The November pogroms, also known as Kristallnacht, were a series of attacks against Jews throughout Germany and parts of Austria on November 9-10, 1938. To commemorate the devastation of the November pogroms, events will be held in many IHRA member countries, both virtually and in person.
02 Nov 2021
Time to read: 5 mins
How the Stutthof Maritime Evacuation IHRA Grant uncovered new dimensions of the Holocaust
The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde has launched a mission to clarify whether there could be a Holocaust grave site linked to the forced evacuation operation from the Stutthof concentration camp.
14 Oct 2021
Time to read: 4 mins
Rising threat of Holocaust distortion requires urgent international response
All around the world, opponents of COVID-19 measures invoke the genocide against the Jewish people by Nazi Germany and its collaborators to paint themselves as victims, and their governments as persecutorial regimes.
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