Herrinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork

by EUROM | Feb 21, 2018

While Camp Westerbork is mainly known for the period between 1942 and 1945, it was initially built in the summer of 1939 to house Jewish refugees coming from Germany. The acceptance of Jewish refugees into the Netherlands, however, was initially certainly not the...

Hrant Dink Foundation

by EUROM | Jun 26, 2017

Hrant Dink Foundation was established after the assassination of Hrant Dink in front of his Armenian-Turkish newspaper AGOS in 2007, in order to avoid similar pains, to continue his legacy. Democracy and human rights for everyone regardless of their ethnic, religious,...

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

by EUROM | Apr 3, 2017

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum was created by an act of the Polish parliament on July 2, 1947, and includes the grounds of two extant parts of the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camps. The Museum grounds cover 191 hectares, of which 20 are at...

Rab Concentration Camp

by EUROM | Mar 27, 2017

In order to crush partisan resistance in Ljubljana, Fascist Italy carried out raids beginning in February 1942 and the majority of arrested civilians were sent to Rab (or Arbe in Italian), the largest concentration camp in Italian-occupied territory. Established in...

Gonars Concentration Camp

by EUROM | Mar 27, 2017

The Gonars concentration camp was located in the town of Gonars, in the province of Udine in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, in the northeast of Italy, near the border with modern-day Slovenia. The region has been a hub for much interaction and exchange between the two...