At the initiative of the government of Sweden, the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research was established at a meeting in Stockholm in May 1998. Consisting of personal representatives of heads of state or government, the Task Force cooperates closely with both governmental and nongovernmental organizations active in disseminating knowledge about the Holocaust as well as in commemoration and research. Currently, representatives of the heads of state or government of Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America are members of the Task Force, as is the independent adviser Yehuda Bauer, former chair of the Yad Vashem Research Institute in Jerusalem.

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The Task Force identified as one of its first priorities developing a catalogue or survey of Holocaust education, remembrance, and research efforts currently under way worldwide. This International Directory is a first step toward that goal and provides basic information on more than 1,000 institutions throughout the world that are concerned with Holocaust education, broadly defined.

This electronic, searchable version is regularly updated and all the information presented should be accurate, but in a work of this sort omissions and errors inevitably occur, despite our best efforts. Please send all additions and corrections to:

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Attn.: Michelle Gross
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC 20024-2126
Telephone: 202.314.0342
Fax: 202.488.2696
E-mail: mgross@ushmm.org

Obviously such an international compilation is impossible without the generous assistance of many organizations and individuals in many countries. In particular, we are most grateful to Dr. William Shulman, President of the Association of Holocaust Organizations (AHO), for permission to include the current (2008) listings for the organizational members of the AHO. Institutions that are members of the AHO have been marked as such.

Members of the Information Working Group of the Task Force, with the assistance of various interns at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, prepared the current version. We are grateful to the numerous organizations worldwide that provided us with information on their activities.

We hope this directory will prove useful to the Task Force and to a plethora of future cooperative international projects involving a multitude of countries in Holocaust education, remembrance, and research.

Michelle Gross
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
On behalf of the Information Working Group of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research

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