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Terezín Declaration Conference, Czernin Palace, Prague, 2-4 November 2022

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Terezín Declaration

Terezín Declaration

List of States: 1. Albania; 2. Argentina; 3. Australia; 4. Austria; 5. Belarus; 6. Belgium; ;7. Bosnia and Herzegovina; 8. Brazil; 9. Bulgaria; 10. Canada; 11. Croatia; 12. Cyprus; 13. Czech Republic; 14. Denmark; 15. Estonia; 16. Finland; 17. France; 18. North Macedonia; 19. Germany; 20. Greece; 21. Hungary; 22. Ireland; 23. Israel; 24. Italy; 25. Latvia; 26. Lithuania; 27. Luxembourg; 28. Malta; 29. Moldova; 30. Montenegro; 31. The Netherlands; 32. Norway; 33. Poland; 34. Portugal; 35. Romania; 36. Russia; 37. Slovakia; 38. Slovenia; 39. Spain; 40. Sweden; 41. Switzerland; 42. Turkey; 43. Ukraine; 44. United Kingdom; 45. United States; 46. Uruguay; The Holy See (observer); 47. Serbia (observer) (later endorsed)

Full Text of Terezín Declaration (PDF, 83 KB)

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Program of the

Terezín Declaration Conference

during the Czech Presidency 

of the Council of the EU

Nov 2-4, 2022

 

Program as of Nov 1, 2022

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, presents its compliments to the 47 countries who endorsed The Terezín Declaration in 2009 and has the honor to inform about preparations of the follow-up international conference to be held in Prague and Terezín on November 2-4, 2022.

The main program of the International Terezín Declaration Conference will be organized in the Czernin Palace in Prague on Thursday November 3, 2022 as one of the main events during the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

The aim of the conference is to take another significant step in future Holocaust remembrance, education of the young generation, reflecting and tackling injustices from the time of the Holocaust and combating antisemitism (especially online) as a means of preventing similar atrocities in our time and in the future. During the conference, the countries will be invited to make their pledges based on the Terezín Declaration for the coming next 3 years and come up with new ideas of additional steps that can be taken as an implementation of the Terezín Declaration. As part of the conference program, the effects of Russian aggression in Ukraine will also be reflected, including the social welfare of Holocaust survivors.

The Conference will be with the physical presence of the speakers and panel participants. The event is organized by the Office of the Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, Interfaith Dialogue and FoRB.

 

Program

Wednesday Nov 2, 2022 – Experts Meeting & SECCA Meeting

1:00pm-4:00pm (Trauttmansdorff Palace)

Experts Meeting organized by the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Jewish Literature, Department of Czech and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague and SECCA Meeting (Special Envoys & Coordinators Combating Antisemitism) – as an initiative of the World Jewish Congress

(Detailed programs see below)

Welcome Drink at the US Ambassador's Residence in Prague for the Heads of Delegations, Panelists and Speakers 

8:00pm – 9:30pm (US Ambassador's Residence)

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Thursday Nov 3, 2022 - International Conference

Registration

8:30am – 9:00am (Ceremonial Entrance)

Exhibition of Illustrations from the Ghetto Terezín

 

Main Session in the Czernin Palace

 

1. Opening Speeches

9:00am – 10:00am (Main Hall)

Jan Lipavský, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic 

Antony Blinken, United States Secretary of State (video)

Meirav Cohen, Minister of Social Equality of the State of Israel 

Věra Jourová, Vice President of the European Commission 

Colette Avital, Chairperson of the Center Organizations of Holocaust Survivors 

Dita Kraus, Holocaust survivor born 1929 in Prague 

Avraham Roet, Holocaust survivor introduced by Sharon Buenos, Global Director, Project Zikaron BaSalon זיכרון בסלון 

Moderator: Robert Řehák, Special Envoy for Holocaust, Interfaith Dialogue and FoRB, Czech Republic

2.  From Terezín Declaration Conference in 2009 to Terezín Declaration Conference in 2022

10:00am – 10:30am (Main Hall)

The panel will pursue progress of the member countries in accomplishing laid down objectives of the Terezín Declaration since its announcing in 2009. Important milestone for this purpose was the Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today (JUST) Act adopted in the US, which provides an overview of successes of each country in reaching declared aims.

Stuart E. Eizenstat, Chairman of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum Council and Special Advisor on Holocaust Issues to the US Secretary of State 

Ellen Germain, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, U.S. Department of State 

Chair: Nicolas de Torrenté, Special Envoy to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, Switzerland 

 

Coffee Break

10:30am – 10:45am (Entrance to the Main Hall)

 

3. Parallel Sessions: Education & National Statements

3.1. Education, Countering Disinformation and Future Remembrance

10:45am – 12:00pm (Main Hall)

The panel will discuss new and innovative approaches in education, research and programs related to the future Holocaust remembrance and promoting tolerance in the society. Education is one of the strongest tools that can be used to strengthen young people’s resilience against disinformation and to fight intolerance, discrimination, hate and antisemitism. To engage with Jewish communities and their members as well as with other minorities could be the perfect opportunity to foster and flourish mutual understanding.

Claudia Roth, Minister of State in the Chancellery, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media 

Yehuda Bauer, Israeli Historian and Scholar of the Holocaust 

Annette Schavan, Foundation for Remembrance, Responsibility and Future, Former Minister of Education of Germany 

Jan Roubínek, Director of Terezín Memorial 

Yossi Gevir, Director of External & Governmental Affairs at Yad Vashem 

Chair: Ann Bernes, President of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance 

 

Special Presidential Message to the Terezín Declaration Conference Participants

12:00pm – 12:15pm (Main Hall)

Miloš Zeman, President of the Czech Republic (text)

Isaac Herzog, President of the State of Israel (video)

 

3.2. National Statements, Contributions and Voluntary Pledges 

10:45am – 12:15pm (Blue Hall)

Claudia Roth, Minister of State in the Chancellery, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Germany

Karoline Edtstadler, Minister for Europe, Austria (video)

Roberto Alejandro Salafia, Ambassador, Argentina

Thomas Piana, Deputy Ambassador for Human Rights, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, France

Tristan Azbej, State Secretary, Hungary

Jackie O’Halloran Bernstein, Director, Human Rights, Political Division, Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland

Meir Bing, Director General, Ministry of Social Equality, Israel

Lepša Štulić, Minister Counsellor at the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Prague, Serbia

Ulrika Sundberg, Special Envoy, Sweden

Simon Geissbühler, Assistant Secretary of State and Head, Peace and Human Rights Division, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland

Egemen Bağış, Ambassador of Türkiye to the Czech Republic, Türkiye

National Statement of Kosovo* (video)

Chair: Dan Haezrachy, Special Envoy for Holocaust Era Restitution, Israel 

 

Lunch

12:15pm - 1:15pm (Gallery)

 

4. National Strategies to Combat Antisemitism and Online Hate Speech

1:15pm – 2:30pm (Main Hall)

The panel will deal with the progress since the European Commission adopted the first-ever EU strategy on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life. Some member states have already finished their strategies and other member states are currently designing their strategies and national policies, which should be assessed by the Commission by the end of 2023. The panel will also deal with the problem, how to improve the algorithms on social media platforms, which should not promote the division of society, hatred, discrimination, and antisemitism, but on the contrary positively motivate especially young people to fight against these phenomena and encourage tolerance and mutual understanding.

Rabbi Andrew Baker, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Anti-Semitism & American Jewish Committee 

František Vrabel, Founder of Semantic Visions, a Prague-based analytics firm that collects and analyzes 90% of the world’s online news content 

Stéphane Dion, Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to the European Union and Europe, and Canada’s Ambassador to France and Monaco 

Irina Rosensaft, Digital Transformation Lead at the Central Welfare Board of Jews in Germany; Jewish Diplomatic Corps, World Jewish Congress

Chair: Katharina von Schnurbein, European Commission Coordinator on combatting Antisemitism 

 

5. Tackling Injustices from the Time of the Holocaust - Immovable Property and Looted Art

2:30pm – 3:45pm (Main Hall)

Hannah Lessing, Austrian National Fund 

David Zivie, Head of Mission for Research and Restitution of Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945, French Ministry of Culture 

Anne Webber, Co-Chair of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe 

Wesley Fisher, Director of Research, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany 

Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff, former Austrian Ambassador in Prague 

Chair: Rt Hon Lord Eric Pickles, United Kingdom Special Envoy for post-Holocaust Issues 

 

Coffee Break

3:45pm – 3:55pm (Entrance to the Main Hall)

 

6. Social welfare of the Holocaust Survivors and Helping to the Holocaust Survivors in Ukraine

3:55pm – 4:15pm (Main Hall)

Greg Schneider, Executive VP of the Claims Conference 

Maya Cimeša Samokovlija, Executive Director of Community Relations, World Jewish Congress

Chair: Mark Weitzman, COO WJRO, Former Chair of IHRA Antisemitism Committee 

 

7. Presentation of the Conference Outputs and of the International Youth Video Contest

4:15pm – 4:30pm (Main Hall)

Presentation of the Conference Outputs and of the International Video Contest: Why and How to Commemorate the Holocaust Today?

 

End of Session

4:30pm

 

Defiant Requiem Concert: Hours of Freedom: The Story of the Terezín Composer

6:00pm – 7:15pm (Main Hall)

Opening speech

Anna Azari, Ambassador of Israel to the Czech Republic

Tomáš Pojar, Advisor for Foreign and Security Policy to the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic 

Hours of Freedom is a stirring multimedia concert-drama featuring music by composers imprisoned in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) Concentration Camp during WWII. Presented as nine chapters with titles including, “Hope”, “Fate”, “Longing” and “The Eyewitness” this concert combines music, video, and narrative to highlight works by Viktor Ullmann, Gideon Klein, Pavel Haas, Rudolf Karel, and others. The compositions performed portray the agony and suffering of camp life, along with the inspiration, revelation, harmony, and hope that comes through music.

Created & written by Murry Sidlin

Presented by The Defiant Requiem Foundation

 

Dinner

7:30pm (Gallery)

Dinner for Delegates in the Czernin Palace

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Friday Nov 4, 2022 – Tour to Terezín

Guided Visit of the Ghetto Terezín 

8:45am – Meeting at the Czernin Palace

9:00am – Departure

9:15am – 9:35am – Memorial of Silence at the Prague Bubny Railway Station presented by Pavel Štingl, Director of Memorial of Silence (historical place from where people were deported to Terezín)

10:20am – 12:00pm – Guided Tour of the Ghetto Terezín

12:00pm – 12:40pm – Buffet lunch in Terezín

1:40pm – Return to Czernin Palace

 

Bus transport to Terezín will be provided for the registered delegates, departing from the Czernin Palace. The return to Prague will be around 1:40pm.

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Detailed Preliminary Program of the Experts Meeting

Wednesday Nov 2, 2022

1:00pm-4:00pm (Trauttmansdorff Palace)

Experts Meeting is held under the honorary auspices of the Charles University Rector Prof. MUDr. Milena Králíčková, Ph.D and organized by the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Jewish Literature, Department of Czech and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. 

Opening Speech

1:00pm-1:30pm (Trauttmansdorff Palace)

Prof. MUDr. Milena Králíčková, Ph.D, Rector of the Charles University in Prague 

PhDr. Milan Žonca, Ph.D., Vice-Dean for International Relations 

Libuše Heczková, Director of the Department of Czech and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University 

 

Key Speakers

1:30pm-2:20pm (Trauttmansdorff Palace)

Julius H. Schoeps, Founding Director of The Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish studies, University of Potsdam: The Deportation of my Grandparents Käthe and Julius Schoeps from Berlin to Theresienstadt 

Mag. Natascha Drubek-Meyer, Ph.D, The School of Slavonic and East, European Studies (SSEES), University College London: Five Reasons Why the Film Made in The Ghetto Theresienstadt Matters Today 

Chair: ThDr. Petr J. Vinš, Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Jewish Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University 

 

Coffee Break

2:20pm – 2:40pm

 

Parallel Sessions:

Session A: Terezín after Three-quarters of a Century

2:40pm-4:00pm  (Trauttmansdorff Palace)

Jiří Sozanský, PhDr. Jan Roubínek, B.A. (Terezín Memorial): Jiří Sozanský’s Terezín Ghetto as Inspiration 

Prof. Jiří Holý, Department of Czech and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University: Czech and German-Language Literature in Terezín

Chair: Mag. Petr Brod, M.A. 

 

Presentations by Students of the Faculty of Arts

Šárka Sladovníková: Ghetto Theresienstadt in Czechoslovak and Czech Feature Film 

Hana Nichtburgerová, M.A.: Richard Glazar in Terezín and in Treblinka 

Tereza Málková: Girl᾿s Magazine Bonaco in Terezín 

 

Session B: Reflecting upon the Holocaust

2:40pm-4:00pm (Trauttmansdorff Palace)

Prof. Joanna Dyduch, PhD., Institute of the Middle and Far East, Jagiellonian University, Kraków: Holocaust memory in contemporary Poland: Developments, disputes, and controversies 

Dr. Avraham Weber, University of Marburg, Current changes in Holocaust research and its effects on international litigation

Dr. Olaf Glöckner, Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish Studies, University of Potsdam: Between silent commemoration and "yolocaust": Debates on handling the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin 

PhDr. et Mgr. Marcela Menachem Zoufalá, Ph.D., Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Jewish Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague:

Joint-Reading of the names of Jewish and Romani Holocaust victims on Yom HaShoah: Contemporary polemic in the Czech Republic 

PhDr. Zbyněk Tarant, Ph.D, Department of Middle East Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of West Bohemia, Plzeň: Holocaust appropriation during Covid-19 - A new challenge to the Holocaust memory? 

Mgr. Jiří Smlsal, Institute of Economic and Social History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University: Confiscations of Romani property during the Holocaust   

Chair: Mgr. Jan Fingerland, Czech Radio 

Discussant: Prof. Matthias Weller, The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn

SECCA – Special Envoys & Coordinators Combating Antisemitism Meeting 

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Contact Details

Office of the Special Envoy for  Holocaust, Interfaith Dialogue and Freedom of Religion
Ms. Petra Kaplanová,
Coordinator and Administrative Support
Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Trauttmansdorff Palace
Loretánská Str. 6,
118 00 Praha 1
E-mail: da@mzv.cz
Tel.: +420 224 183 252
More info: https://www.mzv.cz/terezindeclaration


Robert Řehák, Ph.D.,
Special Envoy for Holocaust, Interfaith Dialogue and Freedom of Religion
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
Trauttmansdorff Palace
Loretánská Str. 6,
118 00 Praha 1
E-mail: robert_rehak@mzv.cz
Tel.: +420 224 183 253

 

Address of the Venue

Czernin Palace, Loretánské náměstí 5, Prague

Trauttmansdorff Palace, Loretánská 6, Prague

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Holocaust Era Assets Conference in Prague, June 26-30, 2009

Conference Proceedings

Publication Holocaust Era Assets (PDF, 7 MB)

Photogallery
http://www.eu2009.cz/en/media-service/photo-gallery/first-day-of-holocaust-era-assets-conference-25796/

http://www.eu2009.cz/en/media-service/photo-gallery/second-day-of-holocaust-era-assets-conference-25909/
http://www.eu2009.cz/en/media-service/photo-gallery/second-day-of-holocaust-era-assets-conference---reception-26138/
http://www.eu2009.cz/en/media-service/photo-gallery/third-day-of-holocaust-era-assets-conference-26323/
http://www.eu2009.cz/en/media-service/photo-gallery/third-day-of-holocaust-era-assets-conference---reception-26450/
http://www.eu2009.cz/en/media-service/photo-gallery/fourth-day-of-holocaust-era-assets-conference-26539/
http://www.eu2009.cz/en/media-service/photo-gallery/fifth-day-of-holocaust-era-conference--26659/

More info
http://holocausteraassets.eu/
 
Important decisions in connection with the Terezín Declaration Conference - Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today (JUST) Act Report
https://www.state.gov/reports/just-act-report-to-congress/
 
Pledges presented at the Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism, October 13, 2021
 https://www.government.se/4ad3b7/contentassets/7d3985b4106c41e69d699719533f16c0/outcome-document---pledges-presented-at-the-malmo-international-forum-on-holocaust-remembrance-and-combating-antisemitism.pdf
 
EU Strategy on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life (2021-2030)
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=COM:2021:615:FIN&pk_campaign=doc&pk_source=EUR-Lex&pk_medium=tw&pk_keyword=No2Antisemitism

* This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.

Source:

https://www.mzv.cz/jnp/en/foreign_relations/terezin_declaration/index.html#:~:text=Nov%202%2D4%2C%202022&text=The%20main%20program%20of%20the,Council%20of%20the%20European%20Union

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