News - Safeguarding Sites
A year in review: Safeguarding Sites
Zoltán Tóth-Heinemann In a year upended by a pandemic, how should one proceed with a project for which site visits, meetings and discussions with local stakeholders are critical? With most...
Landscape-architectural competition “Lety: Memorial to the Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti in Bohemia” has a winner
The Museum of Romani Culture, s.p.o., has announced the winner of the landscape-architectural competition for the design of the future memorial “Lety: Memorial to the Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti...
Project for the preservation of Topovske Šupe is launched in Belgrade
The site Topovske Šupe was one of the first concentration camps for Jews and Roma in Europe, located close to the very centre of Belgrade. Today it is abandoned, unknown to the general public, with...
IHRA Delegation visits Alderney as part of project on safeguarding sites
From 25-28 September, the Safeguarding Sites project team visited the third largest Channel Island of Alderney for the first of their project fieldtrips. The team will be making formal visits to five...
Cambridge Workshop: Experts Identify Threats to Memorial Sites
“In fact, we should act immediately”, urged Insa Eschebach. “A lot is going very well, but there are many threats and challenges we have to address.” As the Director of Memorial Museum Ravensbrück, Dr...
IHRA Delegation visits Alderney as part of project on safeguarding sites
On 26 and 27 September, IHRA's Safeguarding Sites project team will be visiting the Channel Island of Alderney, the third largest of five Islands. This five-year IHRA project will include visits to...
IHRA delegates visit Alderney, first case study in Safeguarding Sites project
On 12 July, Lord Eric Pickles, head of the UK delegation of IHRA, along with the deputy head, Sally Sealey, and Dr Gilly Carr, member of the UK delegation and chair of the new Safeguarding Sites...
Experts Advise on IHRA Safeguarding Sites Project
Sites associated with the Holocaust and the genocide of the Roma play a crucial role in educating current and future generations about the history and causes of the Holocaust, and helping them to...
Safeguarding Sites: the IHRA Charter for best practice
On 1 February, 2019, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance will begin its project 'Safeguarding Sites: the IHRA Charter for best practice' under its five-year priority theme ‘Countering...
Permanent Roma Exhibition in Komárom
On 18 May, 2018, the IHRA Committee on the Genocide of the Roma visited Komárom to discuss a possible venue for a permanent exhibition on the genocide of the Roma in Hungary. In 1944, thousands of...