Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they have taken to encourage international partners to implement the Terezin Declaration.

Of the five subject areas covered in the Terezin Declaration, Holocaust education and remembrance are very effectively covered through the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). As Chair of IHRA for the last year we have worked hard to promote international sharing of best practice among member states and beyond and to encourage additional countries to join. Issues of relevance to property restitution have presented much greater challenges. We have worked closely with the European Shoah Legacy Institute (ESLI) in Prague to stimulate better provenance research and to encourage governments to implement the commitments they made on restitution, both at Terezin and by signing up to the Washington Declaration. ESLI is also planning to organise an international meeting on social welfare for Holocaust survivors, and we have been contributing to the planning process. Sir Andrew Burns, the UK Ambassador for Post-Holocaust Issues, regularly discusses these issues with the governments concerned.