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30/08/2025

The way we teach about the genocide of the Roma matters.

Choices in the classroom can foster understanding and critical thinking, or further entrench stereotypes and stigmatization.

This list is just the starting point.

For in-depth information, including practical tools, historical context, and pedagogical guidance, our Recommendations for Teaching and Learning about the Persecution and Genocide of the Roma during the N**i Era are currently available in three languages.

Learn more about the challenges and opportunities in engaging with this history: https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/ihra-recommendations-for-teaching-and-learning-about-the-persecution-and-genocide-of-the-roma-during-the-nazi-era

29/08/2025

25/08/2025

IHRA Grants offer up to €30,000 per year for international, impact-driven projects.

Join our webinar at 15:00 CEST on 18 September to:
– Learn how to apply
– Understand eligibility
– Ask your questions directly

Sign up here: bit.ly/Grants-Webinar

24/08/2025

Today is Ukraine’s Independence Day. On August 24, 1991, the Ukrainian parliament adopted the Declaration of Independence.

A part of Ukraine’s history will be forever tragically intertwined with the history of Germany. During World War II, N**i Germany occupied Ukraine and deported around 2.4 million Ukrainians in order to exploit them under its system of forced labor.

Ukrainian forced laborers tried to keep in touch with relatives and friends in their occupied home country by writing them postcards. But the whole process was strictly regulated and heavily restricted. They were allowed to write just twice a month, and they had to use special pre-printed postcards with a “reply sheet.” Every postcard sent was checked by the Foreign Letter Censorship Office (Auslandsbriefprüfstelle / ABP) in Berlin. Any undesirable content could be blacked out or the postcard could be withheld altogether. The sender could even be punished for what he or she had written.

After the war, many of these postcards were collected by the Soviet police and secret services. In fact, most of the postcards probably never reached their intended recipients. Instead, they ended up in secret archives in various separate collections of postcards from former forced laborers until they were eventually declassified and sent to regional archives.

At , you can now help us to digitize these postcards. The documents you’ll be working on come from the state archives of the Vinnytsia region and are being digitized as part of a joint project.

Help build the world’s largest digital memorial to the victims of N**ism and – and join us in preserving a piece of Ukraine’s history online: https://everynamecounts.arolsen-archives.org/en/

24/08/2025

Sites of the Holocaust and the genocide of the Roma hold powerful stories. They honor the dignity of victims and survivors, and they help future generations learn the truth.

But these sites are at risk. Without protection, they can be damaged by time, overuse, or distortion.

This week, IHRA experts are meeting in Łódź, Poland, to explore how the IHRA Charter can be used to protect sites of the genocide of the Roma.

Learn more about the Charter here: https://bit.ly/3OfKoHL

15/08/2025

The 2025 IHRA Grant Call is now open!

We offer up to €30,000 per year for international, impact-driven projects.

The first step is to submit a short abstract, due on 6 October.

Learn more and apply: https://bit.ly/IHRAGrants

02/08/2025

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24/07/2025

This crowdsourced project from Arolsen Archives allows you to commemorate victims and survivors of the Holocaust by transcribing their names from original documents, so that they can be searched digitally.

Here's how to contribute: https://bit.ly/47eQYWt

28/06/2025

“That place is not distant. That history is not the past. It is part of the fabric of the city where I was born and where I grew up.”

At the opening of the Israeli Online Plenary, our Secretary General Michaela Küchler tells the story of Heinrich Michel, a Jewish shoemaker from Würzburg, deported with his mother to Riga. Only 16 of the 202 Jews deported from Würzburg that day survived.

“Because of Yad Vashem, we know Heinrich’s name. We have his photograph. We have his sister’s page of testimony. Because of Yad Vashem, we remember that Heinrich – a son, a shoemaker, a Würzburger – lived and died.”

At the opening of the digital meetings, we focus on what makes the IHRA so valuable: experts and governmental representatives from more than 40 countries and international organizations working side by side to honor the memory of every victim and survivor of the Holocaust and the genocide of the Roma.

This collaboration, based on trust and respect, is our greatest strength.

We look forward to working together over the next four days to respond to today’s challenges, to strengthen the historical record of the Holocaust and the genocide of the Roma, and to support policies and programs that use this history to build more inclusive, democratic, and resilient societies.

Photo courtesy of Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem

26/06/2025

We have issued a statement in support of Holocaust remembrance institutions, organizations, and professionals around the world:

"As affirmed in the Stockholm Declaration (2000) and the IHRA Ministerial Declaration (2020), the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance notes the essential mission of Holocaust remembrance institutions and organizations around the world to increase global awareness of the Holocaust (Shoah) and its legacy as well as to preserve and disseminate the memory of the victims and the survivors.

Dedicated remembrance professionals and volunteers play indispensable roles in initiating, developing, and operating these entities.

Yet numerous Holocaust remembrance organizations, institutions, and their professional staff and volunteers are encountering increased antagonism, stigmatization, and marginalization within local, national, and international contexts due to an alarming upsurge in expressions of Holocaust distortion and antisemitism, as well as a significant decline in public knowledge of the Holocaust.

The IHRA is gravely concerned that Holocaust survivors and their families, researchers, educators, and memorial and museum professionals are experiencing increased insecurity, disruption, and delegitimization that derive from growing antisemitism in a number of countries inside and outside the IHRA.

We decry that accurate and meaningful Holocaust remembrance worldwide is being threatened by the long-standing, deeply-rooted scourges of antisemitism and Holocaust distortion, which have gained strength and audacity particularly since the 7 October 2023 Hamas terror attacks upon Israel.

We call on local, regional, and national governmental agencies to protect Holocaust remembrance practitioners from antisemitic and distortionist threats and attacks.

The IHRA commends those countries that have actively engaged in efforts to combat antisemitism and Holocaust distortion and those that have made use of the resources developed by IHRA’s Global Taskforce against Holocaust distortion.

The IHRA urges national, regional, and local governments in its Member, Liaison, and Observer Countries as well as IHRA’s Permanent International Partners to redouble efforts to publicly and consistently support institutions, organizations, and professionals devoted to Holocaust research, education, and remembrance.

We steadfastly uphold our commitment to the IHRA’s foundational documents, the Stockholm Declaration and the IHRA Ministerial Declaration, which set forth the IHRA’s mandate and responsibility to uphold education, remembrance, and research about the Holocaust."

Access our tools and resources on combatting Holocaust distortion here: https://bit.ly/4lt7yZp