IHRA Member Countries have played an important role in ensuring that outright denial of the Holocaust – the notion that that the genocide of Europe’s Jews never happened – finds no place in mainstream...
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...
IHRA Timeline
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) is established in Stockholm by then Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson.
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The Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust is attended by representatives of 46 governments resulting in the creation of the Stockholm Declaration.
Image: Attendees of the Forum. IHRA
The Education Working Group begins drafting educational guidelines on ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’ to teach about the Holocaust.
Image: Salzburg Global Seminar
The UN adopts 27 January as ‘International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust’ and commends the IHRA for its work.
Image: Remembrance Day in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Credit: Dirk P. H. Spits / DPHOTO
The IHRA Honorary Chairman Yehuda Bauer addresses the UN General Assembly on 27 January.
Image: Professor Yehuda Bauer addresses the United Nations General Assembly. Credit: UN Photo/Devra Berkowitz
The decision is made to open the International Tracing Service (ITS) archive following a campaign in which the IHRA was involved.
Image: ITS Bad Arolsen Central Index of Names. Credit: Andreas Greiner-Napp.
The IHRA Permanent Office is established in Berlin. The decision was made to establish a committee on antisemitism and Holocaust denial.
Image: Dr Kathrin Meyer and Karel Fracapane at the opening of the IHRA Permanent Office in 2008. Credit: IHRA
The guidelines ‘The Holocaust and Other Genocides’ are adopted. The IHRA signs a Memorandum of Understanding with OSCE/ODHIR and with the Council of Europe.
Image: IHRA Guidelines. Credit: IHRA
The IHRA implements a Multi-Year Work Plan - four long-term projects focusing on key Holocaust-related issues. A country reporting and peer review system is established...
Image: IHRA Delegate Kamile Rupeikaite. Credit: Arturas Morozovas
The IHRA adopts the International Memorial Museums Charter.
The Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research changes its name to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
The IHRA adopts the Working Definition of Holocaust Denial and Distortion.
The first IHRA conference on the topic of the genocide of the Roma is held in London.
IHRA publishes Social Media guidelines outlining considerations and practices in deploying social media in the Holocaust educational environment.
Image: Credit: Simon Iannelli
The IHRA issues its first academic publication ‘Killing Sites — Research and Remembrance.’ The Vatican appoints a permanent liaison person for IHRA issues.
The IHRA issues its second academic publication "Bystanders, Rescuers or Perpetrators? The Neutral Countries and the Shoah".
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A specific reference to the Holocaust was included within the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) following IHRA efforts.
Image: Hungarian IHRA Chair, Szabolcs Takács, and IHRA Executive Secretary address Vice President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, in 2015 on the issue of the GDPR.
The IHRA issues the third publication in its academic publication series "Research in Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust: A Dialogue Beyond Borders".
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The IHRA held its first ever seminar focused on teaching and learning about the Holocaust and related issues in El Salvador, an IHRA Observer Country.
Image: Participant of the IHRA Seminar on teaching and learning about the Holocaust held in El Salvador on 9 January 2017. (Credit: Luis Paredes)
In cooperation with the Holy See, the IHRA organized the two-day conference on “Refugee Policies from 1933 until Today: Challenges and Responsibilities”.
Image: Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher. NABIS photographers.
The IHRA issues the fourth publication in its academic publication series "Refugee Policies from 1933 until Today: Challenges and Responsibilities".
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