A day-conference on Greek government policies on issues of respect for human rights, religious tolerance, combating anti-Semitism, and sustaining the memory of the Holocaust through education, research, remembrance events, is taking place today (October 5) at the Foreign Ministry’s Kranidiotis auditorium.

Foreign Ministry Secretary General, Ambassador Vassilis Kaskarelis, and the Belgian Chair of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (ITF), Jan Deboutte will open the conference, during which a film on the subject of the uprising of Greeks at Auschwitz (October 7, 1944), will be screened. Greece is one of 31 countries that have so far joined the ITF.