On 20 June, 2018, the Romanian Chamber of Deputies adopted a law that specifically combats antisemitism. The law incriminates the promotion of antisemitic ideas, the distribution and dissemination of antisemitic materials, as well as the initiation and the creation of an organization with an antisemitic character.
The Council of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation held its session on 18 June in Warsaw. The primary objective of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation is to finance the conservation of the authentic remains of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. The
On 31 May 2018, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) successfully concluded its first bi-annual Plenary Meeting under the Italian Chairmanship in Rome where more than 200 experts and governmental representatives met to discuss the Holocaust as a contemporary political issue.
A monument to Holocaust victims in Luxembourg was officially inaugurated on June 17 in the presence of the country’s Grand Duke and Prime Minister. The monument, made by French-Israeli Holocaust survivor Shlomo Selinger, occupies the site of Luxembourg’s first synagogue.