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“Together we must uphold the terrible truth of the Holocaust against those who deny it.”

-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust

“Very much more still needs to be done.”

Holocaust Studies: Aspects of research and actual tendencies.

An Interview with Yehuda Bauer by Michael Wildt

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Courtesy of Medaon Magazin

Chair's Statement on references to the Holocaust in the US healthcare debate

logo_chairmanship_norway The Chair of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research (ITF) has registered that statements have been made during the current health care debate in the US making inappropriate references to the Holocaust in an attempt to influence the political deliberations. The Chair of the ITF condemns these statements as they trivialize the history and memory of the victims of the Holocaust which must be held sacred for future generations.

Transforming Holocaust education in English schools

The United Kingdom has launched one of the most far-reaching and ambitious programmes of teacher professional development in Holocaust education existing in the world today. uk-hedp_program

Marek Edelman

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On October 2, Marek Edelman, the last living commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, passed away at the age of 90. A member of Bund, Edelman represented the party in the Jewish Combat Organization (Yiddishe Kampf Organizatsye). Edelman was among those who confronted the German forces with the first armed resistance in January 1943 and, in April, opposed mass deportation of the Jewish population, which initiated the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

International Conference on Learning at Memorial Sites

In this international conference, located at the Falstad Memorial in the surroundings of the former SS-Camp Falstad, experts from the Task Force and other institutions gather to discuss contemporary challenges and experiences in Holocaust-related memorial sites and museums.

ITF Chair's Statement on President Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial (18/09/2009)

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Statement by the ITF Chair on the Importance of Teaching Children about the Holocaust

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Statement of the ITF Chair regarding the European Parliament resolution on European conscience and totalitarianism

The following statement is issued by the Chair of the International Task Force on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (ITF), Ambassador Tom Vraalsen, in conjunction with the resolution passed by the European Parliament on 2 April 2009, determining 23 August, the date on which in 1939 the infamous Ribbentrop-Molotov agreement was signed between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, as a date of remembrance to victims of both regimes.