The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Adopts a Declaration against the Rehabilitation of Persons Implicated in Crimes of the Holocaust
03 July 2020 News
At a plenary session held on 2 July, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) adopted a declaration on rehabilitation, condemning all attempts at restoring the reputation of accomplices to crimes during the Holocaust and the genocide against the Roma during World War II. The declaration follows the spirit of the Ministerial Declaration of the IHRA member-states adopted in January 2020, which encouraged all countries and societies to openly and objectively address their historic past.
The document urges states to assist research, to foster public awareness and to assume political responsibility for the awareness of their own national history in the years of the Holocaust and the past of individuals implicated in crimes planned and perpetrated by Nazi Germany, its fascist and extreme nationalist partners and other collaborators. It was pointed out that these crimes were perpetrated in countries that are members of the IHRA as well as in other countries, including territories that have not been affected by the Holocaust directly.
At the first plenary session of the IHRA, which was presided by Germany and was held by video conference, there was a discussion on the further implementation of the commitments stemming from the Ministerial Declaration of January 2020. The newly established Global Working Group on Combatting Holocaust Denial and Distortion was presented as a top priority of the German presidency of the Alliance. The participants also discussed the efforts on applying the Recommendations about Teaching and Learning the Holocaust that were adopted in December 2019. These have been translated into Bulgarian and will be made available very soon to Bulgarian teachers and education professionals.
Bulgaria’s representative at the video conference was Plamen Bonchev, head of the Bulgarian delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
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