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Wiener Holocaust Library opens new exhibition on Jewish family photos before 1939
At Britain’s largest Holocaust archive, family photographs are providing a rare glimpse into a lost world. With its new exhibition, “There was a time…”: Jewish Family Photographs Before 1939, the...
Find Your Answers film nominated for award
In 1944, artist Malva Schalek courageously resisted the Nazis by refusing to paint the portrait of a collaborationist doctor. She was then deported to Auschwitz. Her story and the research questions...
The IHRA addresses the situation in Ukraine at Stockholm plenary meetings
STOCKHOLM, 23.06.2022 – The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) has successfully concluded its first plenary meetings under the Swedish Presidency. Guided by the motto, “Together for...
International Council of Archives event discusses IHRA Guidelines
Archives play a major role in addressing the great challenges of today. They shape how we think about the past and provide the nuance and knowledge that form the foundation for an inclusive future....
Seminar investigates the Holocaust and suffering in art and culture
On 22 April 1945, as the forces of Josip Tito's Partisan Resistance Movement approached the Jasenovac concentration camp, hundreds of prisoners held there rose up against the Ustaša camp guards and...
"Find Your Answers. Advancing Access to Holocaust-Related Material" Webinar
On 23 March 2022 from 16:00 – 17:00 CET the IHRA held a Zoom Webinar launching the recently adopted IHRA Guidelines for Identifying Relevant Documentation for Holocaust Research, Education and...
UK to make all its Holocaust records accessible for research and study
The UK government is to make all its records related to the Holocaust available to the public for the first time, for research and study purposes, it announced today to mark International Holocaust...
Conference registration open for “Jasenovac Past and Present: History and Memory of Institutionalized Destruction”
The Jasenovac camp complex was a major site of mass killings of Serbs, Jews, Roma and Sinti, and opponents of the criminal policies of the fascist Ustaša regime during the Second World War. Built in...
How the Stutthof Maritime Evacuation IHRA Grant uncovered new dimensions of the Holocaust
During the last months of the Second World War, the Nazis began forcibly evacuating prisoners on death marches across Europe. By April 1945, the Stutthof concentration camp, established by Nazi...
International community agrees concrete commitments to counter Holocaust distortion and fight antisemitism at Remember ReAct Forum
Malmö, Sweden: 13.10.21 – The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) joined world leaders, and international organizations including the CoE, EU, FRA, OSCE, the UN, and UNESCO at the...