News and events
Learn about recent IHRA activities and upcoming events.
Learn about recent IHRA activities and upcoming events.
With the start of the UK IHRA Presidency, IHRA Chair Lord Eric Pickles discussed his motivations for holding this important position and his hopes and plans for the year.
The Croatian IHRA Presidency began on 1 March 2023. In this Q&A, IHRA Co-Chairs Terezija Gras and Sara Lustig share their motivations for the year ahead.
The children’s opera Brundibar, performed for the Danish Red Cross representatives at the Theresienstadt concentration camp-ghetto speaks out against every form of tyranny through the story of children who experienced unimaginable crimes.
Educational seminars entitled “Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and Suffering: Past in the Present” encourages educationally-sound techniques in the teaching of the Holocaust and works against the distortion of this history in a variety of fields, including in schools and universities, the cultural sector, and the media.
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.
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.
Commemoration events play a significant role in advancing remembrance of this genocide and in countering anti-Roma discrimination.
This interview with Swedish historian Tomislav Dulic in advance of the conference Jasenovac Past and Present: History and Memory of Institutionalized Destruction, co-funded by the IHRA, covers the significance of the site, its place in memory, and the latest developments in research.
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