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The IHRA announced the recipients of its 2025 Grant Program in August 2026. The selected projects involve partners from 17 countries and address several closely connected challenges: safeguarding historical evidence, developing new approaches to Holocaust education, strengthening knowledge about the genocide of the Roma, and responding to Holocaust distortion, antisemitism and anti-Roma prejudice.
The international dimension is fundamental to the program. IHRA grants are intended not simply to finance individual initiatives, but to encourage cooperation between institutions, researchers, educators and civil society organizations across national borders. Over the past decade, more than 150 projects around the world have received support from the program. For the 2025 call, organizations could apply for grants of up to €30,000 for projects lasting a maximum of 24 months.
Saving the historical record
Some of the projects begin with perhaps the most fundamental task facing institutions of remembrance: preserving historical evidence before it disappears. In Ukraine, the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center will work with archival institutions in Ukraine, Israel, Germany and the United States to digitize and catalogue more than 32,000 historical photographs documenting Jewish life before, during and after the Holocaust. The collection will ultimately be made freely available online. The project has particular urgency at a time when the continuing war places archives, monuments and other elements of Ukraine's cultural heritage at risk. Another project concerns a history that remains remarkably little known. On 15 May 1944, 878 Jewish men were deported from France aboard Convoy 73. Unlike most deportation transports from France, the convoy did not travel to Auschwitz but to the Baltic states. Yahad – In Unum, together with partners in France and Lithuania, will continue research into the fate of the deportees through archival investigation, testimonies and archaeological work. The project aims not only to establish individual stories, but also to preserve the memory of one of the least documented deportations from France during the Holocaust.
Historical evidence can also remain literally hidden in the landscape. The Polish Zapomniane Foundation, working with Bildungswerk Stanislaw Hantz in Germany, will continue its efforts to identify and document unmarked burial sites of Holocaust victims. Thirty additional sites are to be investigated through archival research, witness testimony and archaeological methods. An important element of the work is securing long-term legal protection for these places. Thousands of Holocaust victims across Eastern Europe still lie in graves that have never been properly marked or commemorated. These projects demonstrate that safeguarding Holocaust history is not limited to preserving objects already held in museums and archives. It may mean rescuing collections threatened by war, reconstructing the fate of people whose stories remain fragmented, or identifying places where victims were buried without names or markers.
Countering distortion
Other projects address a different but increasingly visible challenge: the circulation of inaccurate, manipulative or deliberately distorted representations of Holocaust history.
The Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre will work with journalists, bloggers and media professionals across Southern Africa. Its project will develop training and practical resources intended to improve reporting on Holocaust-related subjects and help media professionals recognize and respond to distortion and misinformation. Partners include the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Centropa and the Galicia Jewish Museum.
The London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, meanwhile, will examine the extraordinarily long life of antisemitic visual stereotypes. Its project, *Visualising Blood Libels: Jews, Myths and Media*, will trace imagery associated with antisemitic myths from medieval representations to contemporary social media. The resulting online resource is intended primarily for educators and journalists, helping them understand not only individual images but also the historical continuity of visual languages used to stigmatize Jews.
Both initiatives reflect an important change in the environment in which Holocaust education operates. Historical knowledge now competes with an enormous volume of visual and textual information circulating online, where decontextualized photographs, manipulated images and old prejudices can reach large audiences extremely quickly. Countering distortion therefore increasingly requires not only historical expertise, but media literacy and cooperation with those who shape public communication.
Finding new paths to education
Several of the supported projects seek audiences outside the traditional classroom or museum.
One of the most unusual examples is *The Memory Game: Football, Holocaust Education, and the Fight Against Antisemitism*, led by Clemson University in the United States. Coinciding with the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the project will use football as an entry point into Holocaust history. Working with institutions connected to clubs including Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Werder Bremen, FC St. Pauli and Eintracht Frankfurt, it will create exhibitions, digital resources and educational workshops connecting the histories of European football clubs with stories of persecution during the Nazi period.
The Zachor Foundation for Social Remembrance in Hungary will take education into the streets of Kharkiv. *IWalk Kharkiv* will create a digital walking tour connecting locations in the Ukrainian city with Jewish history, survivor testimony and individual stories. The resource will be usable both on location and remotely, allowing students and the wider public to encounter Holocaust history through the physical landscape in which events unfolded.
Two further projects will work specifically with audiences in the Middle East and North Africa
“The Journey from Hate to Hope”, led by the Israeli youth movement Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed together with Morocco's Mimouna Association, will bring Jewish and Muslim organizations together to develop Holocaust education adapted to regional contexts. Training, study visits and local educational initiatives are intended to introduce reliable Holocaust history into
The IHRA announced the recipients of its 2025 Grant Program in August 2026. The selected projects involve partners from 17 countries and address several closely connected challenges: safeguarding historical evidence, developing new approaches to Holocaust education, strengthening knowledge about the genocide of the Roma, and responding to Holocaust distortion, antisemitism and anti-Roma prejudice.
The international dimension is fundamental to the program. IHRA grants are intended not simply to finance individual initiatives, but to encourage cooperation between institutions, researchers, educators and civil society organizations across national borders. Over the past decade, more than 150 projects around the world have received support from the program. For the 2025 call, organizations could apply for grants of up to €30,000 for projects lasting a maximum of 24 months.
Saving the historical record
Some of the projects begin with perhaps the most fundamental task facing institutions of remembrance: preserving historical evidence before it disappears. In Ukraine, the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center will work with archival institutions in Ukraine, Israel, Germany and the United States to digitize and catalogue more than 32,000 historical photographs documenting Jewish life before, during and after the Holocaust. The collection will ultimately be made freely available online. The project has particular urgency at a time when the continuing war places archives, monuments and other elements of Ukraine's cultural heritage at risk. Another project concerns a history that remains remarkably little known. On 15 May 1944, 878 Jewish men were deported from France aboard Convoy 73. Unlike most deportation transports from France, the convoy did not travel to Auschwitz but to the Baltic states. Yahad – In Unum, together with partners in France and Lithuania, will continue research into the fate of the deportees through archival investigation, testimonies and archaeological work. The project aims not only to establish individual stories, but also to preserve the memory of one of the least documented deportations from France during the Holocaust.
Historical evidence can also remain literally hidden in the landscape. The Polish Zapomniane Foundation, working with Bildungswerk Stanislaw Hantz in Germany, will continue its efforts to identify and document unmarked burial sites of Holocaust victims. Thirty additional sites are to be investigated through archival research, witness testimony and archaeological methods. An important element of the work is securing long-term legal protection for these places. Thousands of Holocaust victims across Eastern Europe still lie in graves that have never been properly marked or commemorated. These projects demonstrate that safeguarding Holocaust history is not limited to preserving objects already held in museums and archives. It may mean rescuing collections threatened by war, reconstructing the fate of people whose stories remain fragmented, or identifying places where victims were buried without names or markers.
Countering distortion
Other projects address a different but increasingly visible challenge: the circulation of inaccurate, manipulative or deliberately distorted representations of Holocaust history.
The Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre will work with journalists, bloggers and media professionals across Southern Africa. Its project will develop training and practical resources intended to improve reporting on Holocaust-related subjects and help media professionals recognize and respond to distortion and misinformation. Partners include the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Centropa and the Galicia Jewish Museum.
The London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, meanwhile, will examine the extraordinarily long life of antisemitic visual stereotypes. Its project, *Visualising Blood Libels: Jews, Myths and Media*, will trace imagery associated with antisemitic myths from medieval representations to contemporary social media. The resulting online resource is intended primarily for educators and journalists, helping them understand not only individual images but also the historical continuity of visual languages used to stigmatize Jews.
Both initiatives reflect an important change in the environment in which Holocaust education operates. Historical knowledge now competes with an enormous volume of visual and textual information circulating online, where decontextualized photographs, manipulated images and old prejudices can reach large audiences extremely quickly. Countering distortion therefore increasingly requires not only historical expertise, but media literacy and cooperation with those who shape public communication.
Finding new paths to education
Several of the supported projects seek audiences outside the traditional classroom or museum.
One of the most unusual examples is *The Memory Game: Football, Holocaust Education, and the Fight Against Antisemitism*, led by Clemson University in the United States. Coinciding with the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the project will use football as an entry point into Holocaust history. Working with institutions connected to clubs including Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Werder Bremen, FC St. Pauli and Eintracht Frankfurt, it will create exhibitions, digital resources and educational workshops connecting the histories of European football clubs with stories of persecution during the Nazi period.
The Zachor Foundation for Social Remembrance in Hungary will take education into the streets of Kharkiv. *IWalk Kharkiv* will create a digital walking tour connecting locations in the Ukrainian city with Jewish history, survivor testimony and individual stories. The resource will be usable both on location and remotely, allowing students and the wider public to encounter Holocaust history through the physical landscape in which events unfolded.
Two further projects will work specifically with audiences in the Middle East and North Africa
“The Journey from Hate to Hope”, led by the Israeli youth movement Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed together with Morocco's Mimouna Association, will bring Jewish and Muslim organizations together to develop Holocaust education adapted to regional contexts. Training, study visits and local educational initiatives are intended to introduce reliable Holocaust history into