Holocaust Foundation work shown in Berlin and Dubai

The Abraham Accords have marked a new era in the Middle East and have had a profound and welcome impact on relations between Israel and a number of nearby Arab nations. Unprecedented economic cooperation has been widely reported but there have been significant developments in other areas also. Last week saw International Holocaust Remembrance Day events held in cities across the region, including Cairo, Abu Dabhi and Dubai. 

The Holocaust and Antisemitism Foundation was pleased to receive a request for our stories to be shown in the pavilion and event at the Israel Expo in Dubai.

Our work was also featured in Berlin at an important event commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference. The event was staged by European Coalition For Israel, a group that in 2005 initiated and hosted the first ever Holocaust Remembrance Day event in the European Parliament in Brussels, a year before the UN announced the official International Holocaust Remembrance Day. EC4I has used our Holocaust and Antisemitism Foundation stories at many of its events over the last decade.

EC4I director Tomas Sandell chose to use the story of Leo Pomeranz at the Berlin conference. Leo was born in Berlin in 1933 and spent nearly five years hiding alone in an attic. We interviewed and photographed Leo in 2016 in cooperation with Queensland Jewish Board of Deputies.