On Tuesday, June 29, 2021, at 11:00 am, the Foundation for the Support and Development of Jewish Culture, Traditions, Education and Science is holding an international online conference «Restitution of Jewish Property in South-Eastern Europe: Implementation of the Terezin Declaration”. Signed by 47 states The Terezin Declaration along with additional documents (2010 Guidelines and Good Practice on Real Estate Restitution and Compensation) and US national law (Justice for Non-Compensated and Survivors Act, JUST (entered into force 2018)) contributes to the restoration of justice for the victims of the Holocaust, their descendants and also memorialization of victims of the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis and their allies.
The Conference on the Implementation of the Declaration in the States of South-East Europe is called upon to promote the restoration of justice for the victims of the Holocaust and the preservation of their memory, international cooperation between state authorities and non-governmental organizations.
The main topics of the conference:
— The Holocaust on the territory of the states of South-East Europe
— the destroyed, requisitioned and appropriated property of the victims of the Holocaust — the scale of the problem, the current state and prospects of return
— problems of restitution / implementation of the Terezin Declaration in the countries of South-East Europe.
List of participants and preliminary speech topics:
Mikhail Igorevich Chernov, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for the Support of Jewish Culture, moderation
Ilya Aleksandrovich Altman, Co-Chairman of the Scientific and Educational Center «Holocaust»
«On the Terezin Declaration and its meaning»
Yuri Vyacheslavovich Shevtsov, Director of the Center for European Integration Problems (Minsk, Belarus)
The Terezin Declaration and Eastern European Nationalist Movements
Evgeniy Brik, Executive Director of the “Institute of Judaica”, Researcher at the Institute of Cultural Heritage of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova
«Holocaust on the territory of Moldova and in Transnistria»
Shimshon Daniel Isakson, Rabbi of the Jewish Community of the Republic of Moldova
«Jewish community and the problem of restitution in the Republic of Moldova»
Tatyana Aleksandrovna Zhukova, independent expert
«Romania and the Terezin Declaration: Key Facts and the Current Situation»
Anatoly Andreevich Pomortsev, expert on the Balkan region, Serbia
«The Balkan States and the Implementation of the Terezin Declaration»
Evgeny Leonidovich Paperno, lawyer, member of the Moscow City Bar Association, associate member of the Guild of Russian Lawyers
«Legal Problems of the Restitution»
Andranik Sedrakovich Derenikyan, Chairman of the Board of the Siberian Institute for Scientific and Educational Cooperation and Development
«The Issue of Justice and Restitution in The Post-War Settlement»
Naida Nukhbekovna Azizova, freelance journalist
Contact to join the conference: jewishfund1@gmail.com
