Austria
Summary: Why, What, and How to Teach about the Holocaust
The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and murder of Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. A continent-wide genocide, it destroyed not only...
IHRA Recommendations for Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust
Each IHRA Member Country is committed to encouraging the study of the Holocaust in all its dimensions. However, teaching about this complex and sensitive topic appropriately – and adapting it to the...
Empowering teachers to address antisemitism in the classroom
This article is part of our series looking back at one year of implementation of the pledges made at the Malmö International Forum, Remember ReAct. “Most teachers don’t ask to deal with the topic...
Lecture: Carinthian-Slovenian Partisans
A lecture by Brigitte Entner on Carinthian-Slovenian Partisans.
#WeRemember. A Remembrance Initiative by the Austrian Parliament!
The European Parliament and the national parliaments of the EU Member States are uniting to take a stand against antisemitism and promote remembrance of the Holocaust. The President of the Austrian...
Presentation of the Results of the Austrian-Israeli Textbook Committee
In 2017, Austria and Israel established the Austrian-Israeli Textbook Committee with the aim to analyze its history, civic education and geography textbooks, and to deepen the Austrian-Israeli...
Pressekonferenz: Präsentation des ersten Umsetzungsberichts über die Nationale Strategie gegen Antisemitismus
Minister for EU and Constitutional Affairs, Karoline Edtstadler, and President of the Austrian Jewish Community in Vienna, Oskar Deutsch, will present the first report on the implementation of the...
Webinar: Remembering Auschwitz – Teaching about Auschwitz
Webinar: Remembering Auschwitz – Teaching about Auschwitz On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January 2022 _erinnern.at_ (since 1 January 2022 at OeAD) presents...
IHRA Delegation visits Mauthausen-Gusen and Gunskirchen former concentration camps
The Safeguarding Sites Project aims to visit five sites over the course of five years to gain insight on best practice for site management and preservation of sites of the Holocaust and genocide of...
Call for entries: Simon Wiesenthal Prize for civic engagement to combat antisemitism and promote Holocaust education
The Simon Wiesenthal Prize initiated by National Council President Wolfgang Sobotka and resolved by the National Council, which will be awarded annually, was announced today in Parliament at the...