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Exhibition Timeline Photo: Government Offices of Sweden Dahlstrand/Imagebank.sweden.se Melker Photo: LivingPhoto: History Forum IHRAPhoto: Montgomery/TT Henrik Photo: AnnaTärnhuvud/Aftonbladet/TT Photo: Ljungman/CC/Living Hanna Photo: History Forum Photo: Plinio Lepri/Scanpix Sweden Wiklund/Living Juliana Photo: History Forum Tell Ye Your Children… Tell Ye Your Children... STÉPHANE BRUCHFELD AND PAUL A. LEVINE A book about the Holocaust in Europe 1933–1945 – with new material about Sweden and the Holocaust THE LIVING HISTORY FORUM An information drive is launched to shed light on the ideology that led to The book Tell Ye Your Children … is distributed to 700 000 Swedish families The first Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust is held in January 2000. Then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan participates in two of the four Forums in Grieving Muslims by the memorial to the genocide in Srebrenica in 1995, The Living History Forum is formed – a Swedish government agency tasked On the right, seated, is Italian Archbishop Gennaro Verolino, who was the first International Holocaust Remembrance Day is commemorated each year at the Holocaust and to highlight fundamental democratic values. with school-age children. Sweden takes the initiative to establish the International Holocaust Remembrance the early 2000s. Bosnia and Herzegovina. with promoting democracy, tolerance and human rights, with the Holocaust recipient of the Per Anger Prize, established by the Swedish Government in 2004. Raoul Wallenberg Square in Stockholm and many other places in Sweden. Alliance. The Stockholm Declaration on Holocaust remembrance and combating as its starting point. He was awarded the prize for his selfless and brave efforts during the German antisemitism is adopted. occupation of Hungary in 1944. 1997 1998 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 A national survey conducted by The book Tell Ye Your Children …, which The Swedish Government organises The second Forum, the Stockholm On 23–25 April, 450 participants gather A Swedish government agency is set On 26–28 January, the fourth and final On 27 January, people all over the world Stockholm University shows that one describes the Holocaust, is distributed the Stockholm International Forum on International Forum on Combating for a third Stockholm Forum, called up, tasked with promoting democracy, Forum of the series is held, called gather for what will become an annual third of 8 000 Swedish pupils are to 700 000 Swedish families with the Holocaust, held on 26–28 January. Intolerance, is held on 29–31 January. the Stockholm International Forum tolerance and human rights, based the Stockholm International Forum demonstration. It is International uncertain as to whether the Holocaust school-age children. The Forum is covered by 800 journalists More than 50 countries and UN Secretary- on Truth, Justice and Reconciliation. on lessons learnt from the history of on Preventing Genocide – Threats Holocaust Remembrance Day – the date took place.1 and has 700 participants, 25 of whom General Kofi Annan take part. The Forum The goal is to highlight reconciliation the Holocaust. It is called the Living and Responsibilities. This forward- on which the Auschwitz-Birkenau Prime Minister Göran Persson informs are heads of state and government. is given broader scope and a practical processes following war, conflicts and History Forum and is charged with looking Forum brings together some extermination camp was liberated The then Swedish Prime Minister US president Bill Clinton and British The participating states adopt the direction, aimed at strengthening genocide. The countries in focus are educating teachers, offering school 1 000 participants from over 60 countries. in 1945. The UN declares this date the Göran Persson launches Living History, Prime Minister Tony Blair about Living Stockholm Declaration, which in eight international cooperation between Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, teaching materials, creating physical The Forum aims to investigate the International Holocaust Remembrance an information campaign to shed light History and the powerful impact it articles expresses the promise and individuals and organisations in several Rwanda and South Africa. and digital exhibitions, and organising potential to predict genocide and similar Day in memory of all those who were on the ideology that led to the Holocaust, has had. A meeting is held where ways Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven and Minister for Education Anna Ekström visit the Speaking Memories – The Last Witnesses of the Holocaust exhibition commitment to remember the victims areas. This is to counteract threats to seminars. The new agency is also tasked atrocities, and how international law murdered during the Holocaust. at the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm. and to also highlight fundamental to internationalise the initiative are of the Holocaust and to strengthen democracy and to combat genocide with representing Sweden in the IHRA. and the international community’s It becomes a day for everyone who democratic values. discussed. Several countries are invited remembrance, teaching and research and all forms of racism, including organisations can use different tools wants to express their support for to participate and, at the initiative of about the Holocaust. All IHRA member antisemitism and islamophobia. to try to prevent them. the equal value of all people. Sweden, the International Holocaust countries sign up to the Declaration. Remember – ReAct Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) is The Swedish Government sets up launched in 2012. the Per Anger Prize for Human Rights – Twenty years of Swedish action to combat antisemitism an international prize to be awarded A national centre of excellence for each year to highlight humanitarian research and teaching about the The year 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and work and initiatives in the name of Holocaust and genocide is established the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. It is also 20 years democracy. The Living History Forum at Uppsala University. since the first Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust was held. is responsible for awarding the prize. Elie Wiesel was one of the keynote To commemorate this, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven invited heads of state and speakers at the first Stockholm govern ment, researchers and experts from some 50 countries to participate The Swedish Government’s publication of the book International Forum on the The IHRA has 34 member countries, one liaison country, seven observer countries in the Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Tell Ye Your Children … had a major impact. The book Holocaust. He proposed holding and eight international partner organisations. The Presidency alternates, but there Antisemitism, to be held in October 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was written by Stéphane Bruchfeld and Paul A. Levine the Forum annually and was later is a Permanent Office located in Berlin and led by a Secretary General. The IHRA and summarises the background to the Holocaust appointed Honorary Chair. Elie is active in the following four main focus areas: research, education, museums and memorials. In addition, The Per Anger Prize for Human Rights is named after Per Anger, who was secretary of the Forum has been postponed until October 2021. and its consequences in words and images. Since Photo: IHRA Wiesel came from a Hungarian- it has three specialised committees: the Committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial, the Committee the Swedish legation in Budapest. After Germany occupied Hungary in spring 1944, 1 being published in 1998, more than 1.5 million copies on Genocide of the Roma and the Committee on Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity. Anger – on his own initiative – started issuing provisional Swedish passports to The Forum aims to strengthen Holocaust remembrance and the fight against Lange etc. (Eds.), Utsatthet för etniskt och politiskt relaterat våld m.m., Jewish family and survived the Holocaust. From 1955, spridning av rasistisk och antirasistisk propaganda samt attityder till of the book have been printed. It has been translated The IHRA organises conferences, publishes papers and over the years has made financial contributions Hungarian Jews. From July of that year, he worked with the newly-appointed diplomat demokratin m.m. bland skolelever (Exposure to ethnic and politically- Wiesel lived in the United States, where he worked antisemitism by means of collective efforts and tangible measures. This timeline related violence etc., distribution of racist and anti-racist propaganda and into 18 languages and – in 2001 – was nominated for as a writer. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to 400 projects in 48 countries. The member countries have adopted the IHRA’s working definitions of Raoul Wallenberg, using Swedish protective passports and safe houses to save as many attitudes to democracy etc. among school pupils), Centre for Research in illustrates the actions Sweden has taken over the past 20 years. International Migration and Ethnic Relations/Stockholm University, 1997. the Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis. in 1986. antisemitism and antigypsyism, which Sweden also supports. Jews as possible from persecution, deportation and murder in German-occupied Hungary. Photo: Private/Living History Forum Photo: Retro AdArchives/Alamy Stock Photo Linda LundqvistPhoto: Photo: Mikael Sjöberg/Expressen/TT Photo: Dan Isaac Wallin/Living History Forum Image: Anders Wiklund/TT/Government
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