Archives and Research
Arolsen Archives awarded prestigious European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award
The Arolsen Archives were awarded the prestigious European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award on 9 May 2020. The award recognizes organizations and individuals exemplifying best practices related to...
Project monitors access to Holocaust archives
This past March marked the beginning of one of the IHRA’s latest projects: Monitoring Access to Holocaust Collections, under the IHRA’s five-year priority theme of safeguarding the record. The project...
Dutch Network of War Collections wins GLAMi
Dutch Network of War Collections wins international innovation prize with Warlives.org The Dutch Network of War Collections (Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen) has won a prestigious GLAMi Award with its Warli...
Pius XII archives opened
Today, a big step towards greater access to archives and new research on the Holocaust was taken. The archives of Pope Pius XII, who served as head of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958, were...
IHRA Chair commends Holy See on opening of Pope Pius XII Archives
The IHRA Chair, Ambassador Georges Santer, said: "We commend the Holy See’s official opening of the Pope Pius XII Archives today. Archival access is a key aspect of Holocaust remembrance, and...
Sousa Mendes exhibition opens in Luxembourg City
I could not have acted otherwise, and I therefore accept all that has befallen me with love. The sentiment of these words, spoken by Aristides de Sousa Mendes towards the end of his life, is...
Expert Workshop on Memory Laws
From 29 – 30 July, 2019, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) held an expert workshop as part of its project on the topic of Memory laws under its five-year priority theme...
IHRA Academic Working Group Statement on Scholarly Comparisons
"The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance aims to safeguard the record and counter distortion of the history of the Holocaust and genocide of the Roma. Its vision is to work towards the moral...
Film Archives of the City of Luxembourg: Cinema-Concert of the film “Die Stadt ohne Juden” – The City without Jews feat. The Silent Movers
Tuesday, 14 May 2019 at 8:30 pm, Cinémathèque of Luxembourg In cooperation with: International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance - 2019 Luxembourg Chairmanship, Austrian Embassy in Luxembourg...
International Forum on the Kindertransport
Eighty years after the British operation to provide a safe haven for 10,000 unaccompanied child refugees from Nazism, how should the Kindertransport be remembered? This is the central question that...