Task Force For International Cooperation On Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research

 
 
 

News

01.07.10 - Spain launches its first educational program in Auschwitz

Spanish Students at Auschwitz Spain has launched a pioneering project to bring students to various sites of Holocaust remembrance around Europe.

29.06.10 - OSCE Conference on Tolerance in Astana, Kazakhstan

thumb_OSCE_kazakhstan_logoDan 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 of a resurgence of antisemitism and Holocaust denial around the world.


23.06.10 - Plenary Session

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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 2010. Over 200 delegates attended representing 35 countries and 114 NGOs and intergovernmental organizations and government institutions in the ITF's 4 Working Groups.


23.06.10 - The Global Prevention of Genocide: Learning From the Holocaust, on 28 June - 3 July, 2010

Salzburg_seminarToday, 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 Seminar's project is to make the prevention of genocide a central part of Holocaust education curricula.


09.06.10 - UK appoints Envoy for post-Holocaust Issues

andrew_burnsForeign Secretary William Hague has appointed Sir Andrew Burns as the United Kingdom's first Envoy for post-Holocaust Issues.


08.06.10 - Seventh International Conference on Holocaust Education, Yad Vashem June 12-13, 2010

thumb_yv_internatinal_conference_2010On 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 International Conference on Holocaust Education.


27.05.10 - Spain to strengthen its network for Holocaust education

Tribute to Shlomo Venezia, a Judeo-Spanish Auschwitz survivor 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 transmitting Holocaust history.


25.05.10 - Warsaw Ghetto Fighters Monument Unveiled

thumb_warsaw_ghetto_fighters_memorialOn May 13, the ceremony for the unveiling of the Monument Commemorating the Evacuation of Warsaw Ghetto Fighters took place at 51, Prosta Street in Warsaw.

 

 


18.05.10 - Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet Opens Exhibit “Convoy no. 73—Convoy with a Singular Fate”

thumb_Urmas_Paet_copyForeign Minister Urmas Paet opened the exhibit in the Museum of Occupations entitled "Convoy no. 73-Convoy with a Singular Fate", which is dedicated to memory of the 900 French Jews who were deported to Tallinn and Kaunas in 1944. 


05.05.10 - Austria Commemorates Victims of National Socialism

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5 May 2010 marks the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp complex.

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