Sites of the Holocaust and the Genocide of the Roma
New resource maps Holocaust-related sites in the UK
The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) and the Department for Levelling up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) have launched a significant new digital resource to enrich teaching and learning about the...
A Charter for the specificities of Holocaust Heritage
by Safeguarding Sites team members Gilly Carr, Steve Cooke and Margaret Comer Holocaust sites are inherently complex. They are the product of ever evolving memorialization practices and at times...
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...
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...
Eight recommendations to safeguard sites presented to Alderney community
From 7–9 July 2021, Alderney's President William Tate hosted a delegation comprising Lord Eric Pickles, UK Head of Delegation to the IHRA; Dr Gilly Carr, Channel Islands representative to the IHRA...
Locker of Memory
The Jungfernhof concentration camp is located four miles outside of Riga Latvia, where 3,984 Reich Jews were imprisoned, from 1941–1943. Today, it is used as a recreational park, with only a single...
The rural Holocaust. Collecting and safeguarding the never recorded testimonies 100 forgotten Jewish graves
Seeking to combat the distortion of the Holocaust as a genocide which exclusively took place in ghettos and extermination camps, the “Forgotten” Foundation and its partners will locate previously...
Why do we need to safeguard sites?
by Safeguarding Sites Project Chair Gilly Carr The answer to the question of why we need to safeguard sites is something that we might feel instinctively, as something self-evident and obvious...
Mapping the Holocaust: Preservation of the Topovske Šupe camp
This scientific research project has developed a permanent record of the Topovske Supe concentration camp. The project team accomplished this by mapping, collecting archival and other documentation...
Shoah Atrocities Mapping -- Ukraine
This project will create an interactive online map of Holocaust killing sites in Ukraine, which will include sites identified through archival and on-site research. Highly relevant to the IHRA Grant...