MISSION
The Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research consists of representatives of government, as well as governmental and non-governmental organizations. Its purpose is to place political and social leaders’ support behind the need for Holocaust education, remembrance, and research both nationally and internationally.
Initiated by Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson in 1998, the Task Force currently has sixteen member countries: Argentina, Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Professor Yehuda Bauer, former chair of the Yad Vashem Research Institute in Jerusalem, is the Task Force’s advisor.
Membership in the Task Force is open to all countries. Members must be committed to the Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust, and must accept the principles adopted by the Task Force regarding membership. They must also be committed to the implementation of national policies and programs in support of Holocaust education, remembrance, and research. The governments comprising the Task Force agree on the importance of encouraging all archives, both public and private, to make their holdings on the Holocaust more widely accessible. The Task Force also encourages appropriate forms of Holocaust remembrance.
Countries wishing to create programs in Holocaust education or to further develop their existing information materials and activities in this area are invited to work together with the Task Force. To this end Liaison Projects can be established between countries and the Task Force for long-term cooperation. Such cooperation is mutually beneficial to all concerned.
The first Liaison Project, with the Czech Republic, began in 1999. Within this project’s framework, a national teacher training program at the Terezin Memorial has been developed, and Czech teachers have received advanced training at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. The project also includes cooperation with Roma cultural organizations. The experience with the Czech Republic has served as a model for work in other countries. Liaison Projects have also been initiated in cooperation with Argentina, Croatia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine. The Task Force has established working groups in regard to each of these countries, as well as in regard to memorials, information projects, research, and education.
The website of the Task Force (http://taskforce.ushmm.gov) maintains an international directory of organizations in Holocaust education, remembrance, and research; an international calendar of events; a directory of archives; listings of remembrance and education activities; as well as additional information about the Task Force.
Task Force countries:
•	Argentina
•	Austria
•	Czech Republic
•	France
•	Germany
•	Hungary
•	Israel
•	Italy
•	Lithuania
•	Luxembourg
•	The Netherlands
•	Norway
•	Poland
•	Sweden
•	United Kingdom
•	United States of America (current chair of the Task Force)
Contact information:

Ambassador Giorgio Franchetti Pardo
Luigi Clavarino
Anna Piperno
Vincenza Iossa
Gabriella Zarroli

Karel Fracapane, ITF Fellow
 
Arthur Berger, Director of Communications
Michelle Gross, Program Officer 

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Pl., SW
Washington, DC 20024
Tel.: +1-202-488-0400
Fax: +1-202-488-2960
E-mail: mgross@ushmm.org