Events & Meetings

EJC holds concert in Krakow to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau

EJC Executive Vice-President Raya Kalenova addressed the hundreds of participants at the event, which included distinguished policymakers, diplomats, leaders of Jewish communities from across the world, and Holocaust survivors, emphasising the need for the stories of the millions murdered under the Nazi regime to continue to be told for generations to come.

EJC President warns Europe from growing xenophobia, anti-Semitism and tolerance towards Iran

Seventy years have passed since Europe plunged into Kristallnacht, which followed the publication of the Nuremberg Laws, the laws of inhumanity and Intolerance. Europe paid a high price for its tolerance for other peoples Intolerance 50 million Europeans were wiped from the face of earth, including 6 million European Jews.

World Leading Experts Gather at the International Conference on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe

The International Conference on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe was held in Luxembourg on May 24-25, 2007. The Conference was attended by world leading experts to address the issue of nuclear non-proliferation over the last decade.

EJC Executive meets in Frankfurt

On December 19th, 2007 in Frankfurt, Germany, EJC President Moshe Kantor addressed the Executive Board of the Central Council of Jews in Germany at the invitation of Charlotte Knobloch, Council president and EJC vice president. Mr. Kantor spoke about various issues including the planned commemorative ceremony for the 70th anniversary of the Kristalnacht planned to take place in November 2008

EJC President meets British Jewish community, joins the Veteran March in London

On the occasion of his visit to the British Jewish Community, EJC President Moshe Kantor joined the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women for their 73rd Annual Remembrance Ceremony and Parade. President Kantor met with the leadership of AJEX and commended them on their courage and the important work they were doing in honouring the memory of the Jewish soldiers who fought with the British Services during World Wars I and II.

EJC President Moshe Kantor/ADL Delegation with Russian Foreign Affairs Minister

On November 8, 2007, President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) and the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC) Moshe Kantor participated in the meeting between Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov and the delegation from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) led by its Director Abraham Foxman during their trip to Moscow

EJC President Kantor congratulates German Chancellor Merkel on award of Leo Baeck Prize

Berlin, 7 November, 2007 - The President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC), Moshe Kantor, has congratulated Germany's Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel on this year's award to her of the prestigious Leo Baeck Prize by the Central Council of Jews in Germany. Kantor attended the award ceremony at the Adlon Hotel in Berlin on Tuesday.

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Statements

Declaration of the EJC on the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau

The Shoah, the systematic and deliberate mission of the Nazis and their collaborators to annihilate the Jewish people, resulted in the murder of six million Jews between 1939 and 1945. This unparalleled atrocity in world history must never be trivialised, contextualised, or compared, as such acts perpetuate the suffering of its victims and their descendants.