At 10:00 on Friday, 5 October 2012, the Foreign Ministry (Kranidiotis Hall, 1 Akadimias St.) is hosting a conference on the policy of Greek government’s in recent years on issues of respect for human rights, religious tolerance, combating anti-Semitism, and sustaining the memory of the Holocaust through education, research, remembrance events, and the country’s legislation.
The conference proceedings will be opened by the Foreign Ministry’s Secretary General, Ambassador Vassilis Kaskarelis, and the Belgian Chair of the International Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (ITF), Jan Deboutte. Greece is one of 30 countries that have so far joined the ITF. Participants in the conference – diplomatic personnel, academics and journalists – will have the opportunity to be brought up to date on developments and to participate in the discussion to follow.
Within the framework of the conference, which will be carried out in English, a film will be shown on the subject of the uprising of Greeks at Auschwitz (7 October 1944), and there will be a 3D presentation of the Greek exhibit at the Auschwitz Holocaust Museum in Poland.
October 4, 2012