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.
01 Jun 2023
Time to read: 6 mins
The Remembering Hilda Dajč Award: Creating courageous cultures of remembrance
The Remembering Hilda Dajč Award recognizes invaluable contributions to meaningful collective remembrance that encourage social responsibility and a better future.
17 Mar 2023
Time to read: 1 min
Overview of memorial museums in Germany builds network
This revised survey, created by the Gedenkstättenforum as a department of the Topography of Terror and originally co-funded by an IHRA Grant, strengthens networks of memorial museums which educate future generations about past atrocities.
02 Dec 2021
Time to read: 1 min
Conference registration open for “Jasenovac Past and Present: History and Memory of Institutionalized Destruction”
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.
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.
01 Apr 2021
Time to read: 3 mins
Greece takes over the IHRA Presidency from Germany
Today, 1 April, the IHRA Presidency will be handed over from Germany to Greece. This means that the outgoing Chair, Ambassador Michaela Küchler, will take on a supportive role as a member of the Troika, which comprises last year’s, this year’s and next year’s IHRA Chairs.
31 Mar 2021
Time to read: 1 min
Germany adopts the working definition of antigypsyism/anti-Roma discrimination
Today, Germany’s Federal Cabinet adopted the IHRA’s non‑binding working definition of antigypsyism/anti‑Roma discrimination, making Germany the first country to do so at the national level.
30 Mar 2021
Time to read: 2 mins
“The Lesson: Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust in Europe” film screening and panel discussion
A documentary screening and panel discussion organized by the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities (AIPG) and the IHRA, was held on 26 March 2021.
01 Mar 2020
German Presidency 2020
All speeches and statements by the German presidency of the IHRA in 2020 can be found here.
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