LITHUANIA’S EFFORTS TO PERPETUATE THE REMEMBRANCE OF THE HOLOCAUST VICTIMS PRESENTED IN MECHELEN, BELGIUM
At the plenary session of the International Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (ITF) on June 28 in Mechelen, Belgium, a delegation led by the Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Asta Skaisgirytė Liauškienė presented Lithuania’s efforts and activities to perpetuate the remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust.
Director of the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum Markas Zingeris, Executive Director of the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania Ronaldas Račinskas, Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy at Vytautas Magnus University Šarūnas Liekis are members of the delegation led by the Vice-Minister.
On June 25-28, the plenary session began with an academic conference “National Police Forces in Europe and the Holocaust 1939-1945”, during which researchers presented the role of Belgian, Hungarian, Serbian, Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Polish, Lithuanian, French, and Dutch national police forces in the Holocaust during the Second World War.
The plenary session of the International Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (ITF) also discusses topical issues of Holocaust education, academic research, the role of museums and memorials in the perpetuation of the remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust. Participants will adopt a long-term action plan to memorialize the killing fields in Central and Eastern Europe.
Lithuania has been a member of the ITF since 2002. This organisation brings together representatives from 31 member countries around the world. These countries are committed to the 2000 Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust, rallying the international community to perpetuate the remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust, and to combat all forms of anti-Semitism, racism and xenophobia.
The Seimas (Parliament) of Lithuania declared 2011 as the Year of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust in Lithuania, while the Government implemented a wide-ranging programme of events dedicated to the remembrance of the Holocaust victims.
In cooperation with the ITF partners, Lithuania is implementing various Holocaust education projects aimed at the general public, educators and members of academic community.
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