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Memorandum of Understanding between the ITF and the OSCE/ODIHR
ITF Chairman Dan Tichon, and Ambassador Janez Lenarcic, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the...
Austrian Jews in Latvia. Refuge – Asylum – Deportation
Austrian and Latvian historians and researchers worked together for some years researching the fate of Austrian Jews who fled the territory of Nazi-occupied Austria between 1938 and 1940 and went...
Spanish Court dissolves the neo-Nazi organization “Sangre y Honor”
The judges of the Third Section of the Provincial Court of Madrid decided last week to dissolve the neo-Nazi organization Blood and Honour Spain ("Sangre y Honor" in Spanish), condemning 15 of the...
Spain launches its first educational program in Auschwitz
Spain has launched a pioneering project to bring students to various sites of Holocaust remembrance around Europe. The first trip will include Spanish students from the French secondary school...
OSCE Conference on Tolerance in Astana, Kazakhstan
Dan Tichon, the chairman of the ITF in 2010, delivered a speech today to the OSCE's High-Level Conference on Tolerance and Non-Discrimination on the goals and proposals of the ITF in the context...
Plenary Session
The Task Force for International Cooperation in Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (ITF) met for its biannual Plenary meeting, the first under the Israeli chairmanship, from 14-17 June...
The Global Prevention of Genocide: Learning From the Holocaust, on 28 June - 3 July, 2010
Today, many states have recognized the importance of teaching about the Holocaust and using it as a mechanism for preventing racism, ethnic conflict, and genocide. The aim of the Salzburg Global...
UK appoints Envoy for post-Holocaust Issues
Foreign Secretary William Hague has appointed Sir Andrew Burns as the United Kingdom's first Envoy for post-Holocaust Issues. Press release by the Foreign Office of the United Kingdom...
Seventh International Conference on Holocaust Education, Yad Vashem June 12-13, 2010
On 12-13 June, prior to the ITF Plenary Meetings in Jerusalem, 200 world-renowned scholars, philosophers and leaders from some 40 countries will come together at Yad Vashem for the Seventh...
Spain to strengthen its network for Holocaust education
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, together with Casa Sefarad-Israel and the Ministry of Education, is organizing a conference in Madrid on 27-29 May for over 200 educators on...