On 26 June 2025, during the first International Holocaust
Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)
plenary held under the Israeli presidency, the IHRA issued
a statement in support of Holocaust remembrance institutions,
organisations and professionals.
The UK, along with the other 34 IHRA member
states, endorsed the statement, which was adopted by consensus.
The full text is below and on the
IHRA's website.
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance
statement
As affirmed in the Stockholm Declaration (2000) and the
IHRAMinisterial
Declaration (2020), the International Holocaust Remembrance
Alliance notes the essential mission of Holocaust remembrance
institutions and organizations around the world to increase
global awareness of the Holocaust (Shoah) and its legacy as well
as to preserve and disseminate the memory of the victims and the
survivors.
Dedicated remembrance professionals and volunteers play
indispensable roles in initiating, developing, and operating
these entities. Yet numerous Holocaust remembrance organizations,
institutions, and their professional staff and volunteers are
encountering increased antagonism, stigmatization, and
marginalization within local, national, and international
contexts due to an alarming upsurge in expressions of Holocaust
distortion and antisemitism, as well as a significant decline in
public knowledge of the Holocaust.
The IHRA is
gravely concerned that Holocaust survivors and their families,
researchers, educators, and memorial and museum professionals are
experiencing increased insecurity, disruption, and
delegitimization that derive from growing antisemitism in a
number of countries inside and outside the IHRA.
We decry that accurate and meaningful Holocaust remembrance
worldwide is being threatened by the long-standing, deeply-rooted
scourges of antisemitism and Holocaust distortion, which have
gained strength and audacity particularly since the 7 October
2023 Hamas terror attacks upon Israel.
We call on local, regional, and national governmental agencies to
protect Holocaust remembrance practitioners from antisemitic and
distortionist threats and attacks.
The IHRA
commends those countries that have actively engaged in efforts to
combat antisemitism and Holocaust distortion and those that have
made use of the resources developed by IHRA's
Global Taskforce against Holocaust distortion.
The IHRA urges
national, regional, and local governments in its Member, Liaison,
and Observer Countries as well as IHRA's
Permanent International Partners to redouble efforts to publicly
and consistently support institutions, organizations, and
professionals devoted to Holocaust research, education, and
remembrance.
We steadfastly uphold our commitment to the IHRA's
foundational documents, the Stockholm Declaration and the
IHRA
Ministerial Declaration, which set forth the IHRA's
mandate and responsibility to uphold education, remembrance, and
research about the Holocaust.
