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Photo highlights from Switzerland's chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.

Switzerland's chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2017

The new chairman of the IHRA, FDFA Secretary General Benno Bättig, gives a speech at the Swiss embassy in Berlin on 7 March 2017. © FDFA
The new chairman of the IHRA, FDFA Secretary General Benno Bättig, gives a speech at the Swiss embassy in Berlin on 7 March 2017. © FDFA
Handover ceremony for the IHRA chairmanship, from left to right: Italian Ambassador Sandro De Bernadin (chairman in 2018), Switzerland’s Ambassador to Germany Christine Schraner Burgener, Benno Bättig (current chairman), and Romanian Ambassador Mihnea Constantinescu (outgoing chairman). © FDFA
Benno Bättig, FDFA secretary-general and chairman-designate of the IHRA (centre), speaking with Israel's ambassador to Switzerland, Jacob Keidar (right), and François Wisard, head of the FDFA History Unit. ©FDFA
Israel's ambassador to Switzerland, Jacob Keidar, gives a speech on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. ©FDFA
Benno Bättig, FDFA secretary-general and chairman-designate of the IHRA, gives a speech on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. ©FDFA
Vlad Vasiliu, ambassador of Romania to Switzerland and chairman of the IHRA until 7 March 2017, gives a speech on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. ©FDFA
Musical interlude by violinist Piotr Plawner during the ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day. ©FDFA
François Wisard, head of the FDFA History Unit, gives a speech on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. © FDFA
Speech by Professor Ivan Lefkovits, Holocaust survivor, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. ©FDFA
Professor Ivan Lefkovits, Holocaust survivor, presents his work ‘Memoiren von Holocaust-Überlebenden’ (Memoirs of Holocaust survivors), published in German and soon to be published in French. ©FDFA
David Polnauer, Rabbi of the Jewish Community of Bern, recites the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, at the close of the ceremony. © FDFA
Informal discussion at the end of the ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day. ©FDFA
Benno Bättig, FDFA secretary-general and chairman-designate of the IHRA (centre), speaks with Otto Lampe, ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Switzerland. ©FDFA
Benno Bättig, FDFA secretary-general and chairman-designate of the IHRA, greets Christa Markovits, Holocaust survivor and author of one of the survivor memoirs. © FDFA
Benno Bättig, Chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), lays a wreath at the Death Wall in Auschwitz during the March of the Living on 24 April 2017. © FDFA/Andrej Motyl
Benno Bättig, Chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), lays a wreath at the Death Wall in Auschwitz during the March of the Living on 24 April 2017. © FDFA/Andrej Motyl
Benno Bättig, Chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), commemorates the victims of the Holocaust before a memorial plaque at former death camp Birkenau during the March of the Living on 24 April 2017. ©FDFA/Andrej Motyl
Participants in the March of the Living in Auschwitz on 24 April 2017. ©FDFA/Andrej Motyl
Participants in the March of the Living in Auschwitz on 24 April 2017. ©FDFA/Andrej Motyl

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First plenary meeting under Swiss chairmanship of the IHRA on 26th June in Geneva

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Second plenary meeting of the IHRA chaired by Switzerland in Bern 30.11.2017

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Last update 25.03.2024