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London Jewish Cultural Centre

International Task Force for Holocaust Education

The Holocaust & Anti-Racism Education Department of the London Jewish Cultural Centre sits on the Task Force for International Co-operation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research. Under their auspices the Department runs an international programme in countries including the Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland and Belarus. A groundbreaking project in summer 2005 was the teacher- training seminar on the Holocaust that took place in Nanjing, in eastern China, where 300,000 people were massacred by the Japanese army in 1937. The purpose of the Task Force is to consolidate the support of political and social leaders for Holocaust education, remembrance, and research on both a national and international scale. Comprising representatives from governments and from governmental and non-governmental organisations, it was initiated in 1998 by Swedish Prime Minister, Göran Persson. The Task Force currently has twenty-four member countries:

  • Argentina
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Croatia
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece 
  • Hungary
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Romania
  • Slovakia
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
Professor Yehuda Bauer, former chair of the Yad Vashem Research Institute in Jerusalem, is the Task Force’s advisor.