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27.01.2024 Article

Remembering the Siege of Leningrad

The Siege of Leningrad ended 80 years ago, when Soviet troops liberated what is now Saint Petersburg. The Wehrmacht forces had inflicted terrible suffering on the people of Leningrad for more than two years.

German Ambassador Alexander Graf Lambsdorff laying a wreath in Saint Petersburg in remembrance of the Siege of Leningrad
07.11.2021 Article

A STOLPERSTEINE ceremony in commemoration of Foreign Office staff members who were persecuted by the National Socialist regime

Today, the artist Gunter Demnig, at the request of a group of Federal Foreign Office employees, will be laying more than 50 STOLPERSTEINE and one STOLPERSCHWELLE at the site on Wilhelmstraße in Berlin where the Foreign Office was located from 1870–1945.

The small memorial plaques will keep alive the memory of former Foreign Office staff members who were either laid off, persecuted or murdered by the National Socialist regime after it came to power in 1933
15.09.2021 Article

Concept for a forum for remembrance and exchange with Poland: Presentation by Foreign Minister Heiko Maas in Berlin on 15 September

The Second World War began in September 1939 with Germany’s invasion of Poland. It was here that the demonic violence of the racial-ideological war of annihilation in Central and Eastern Europe became apparent for the first time, bringing immeasurable suffering to the country’s people.

flags on poles from left to right: Germany, Poland and the EU
24.06.2021 Article

Remembering together: German-American Holocaust dialogue

More than seven decades after the end of World War II, antisemitism and Holocaust denial are rising again. The US and Germany are therefore establishing a Holocaust dialogue, with the intention of working together to preserve the memory of the immeasurable suffering and horror of the Holocaust.

Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken signed an agreement on establishing a joint Holocaust dialogue
01.04.2021 Article

International solidarity against antisemitism and antigypsyism – Germany’s IHRA Chairmanship in 2020/2021

Germany took over the chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) for the first time at the beginning of March 2020. Today, as the chairmanship passes to Greece, we look back on the last year.

A woman speaks into a camera seen in the foreground
03.03.2020 Article

Germany assumes the IHRA chairmanship

2020 will mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and the liberation of the concentration camps. This anniversary year, Germany will for the first time hold the chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).

Germany’s chairmanship began with the handover from Luxembourg on 3 March 2020

Press releases

  1. 03.05.2023 Press release

    Joint Statement by the Governments of the United States of America and the Federal Republic of Germany on the Dialogue on Holocaust Issues

  2. 29.09.2022 Press release

    Joint statement from special envoys for Holocaust issues on the anniversary of the massacre at Babyn Yar and on Russian actions in Ukraine

  3. 31.03.2021 Press release

    Foreign Minister Maas on the IHRA working definition of antigypsyism/anti‑Roma discrimination

  4. 24.02.2021 Press release

    Foreign Minister Maas presents awards for school projects on the culture of remembrance

  5. 10.02.2021 Press release

    Statement by Foreign Minister Maas on the first meeting of the German-Polish expert commission

  6. 03.02.2021 Press release

    Statement by Foreign Minister Maas on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance

  7. 26.01.2021 Press release

    Foreign Minister Maas on the contribution to AMCHA, the support organisation for Holocaust survivors and their families

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