Conference on twenty years of the Stockholm declaration to take place in October 2020

Sweden will host an international conference on twenty years of the Stockholm declaration, which resulted in the foundation of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).

The gathering of heads of state and government will be held in Malmo, on October 27 and 28 — 20 years after the Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust and 75 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

“You find antisemitism in Sweden, in Europe and all over the world. Antisemitism isn’t only a Jewish problem, it is a poison for all of society,” Swedish PM Stefan Löfven told AFP in an interview.

The official announcement, at the end of the campaign for the European elections, also served as a reminder that they are “all the more important as the election is a referendum on populist forces.”

“It’s a choice of values, for equal rights, it’s about standing up for your beliefs,” he added.
Malmo had offered to host the conference, recalling the city had welcomed Danish Jews fleeing from Nazi-occupied Denmark during the Second World War, as well as hundreds of concentration camp survivors.

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