Anna Zielinska
country representative
Warszawa
Biography
Anna Zielinska is a Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Expert. Anna is a Board Member of the Jewish Association Czulent, where she works on issues of hate crime, hate speech, antisemitism and advocacy. She also serves as the Steering Committee Member of the ENCATE Network and Executive Committee member of the International Council of Jewish Women. Anna served as an Adviser on Combating Antisemitism in the OSCE/ODIHR and the Adviser on Combatting Antisemitism to the Jewish Community of Warsaw. She obtained her Law degree at Warsaw University and Cambridge British Law School. In addition, she took a post-graduate Middle Eastern Politics and History course at Tel Aviv University. Anna is also an author of publications on international law and tolerance and non-discrimination topics.
Organisation
International Council of Jewish Women (ICJW)
dInternational Jewish organisation
ICJW represents Jewish women from all walks of life in international forums and is strategically positioned to confront and respond to the concerns of the Jewish community and women in general. ICJW has consultative status at the United Nations as an NGO with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). ICJW representatives attend meetings of the UN General Assembly, ECOSOC, UNICEF and UNESCO. ICJW is represented at the Council of Europe, the European Women's Lobby, the International Council of Women, the World Jewish Congress, and other major international and regional organizations. Believing that women's rights are human rights, ICJW lobbies for an end to discrimination against women in all spheres of life. In its battle against intolerance, ICJW campaigns to combat racism, antisemitism and all forms of religious discrimination.
Alberta Alkalay
Chairwoman
Bourgas
Organisation
Center for Jewish-Bulgarian Cooperation Alef
cEuropean Jewish organisation
CENTER FOR JEWISH-BULGARIAN COOPERATION "ALEF" Center for Jewish and Bulgarian cooperation "Alef" is a Non-governmental organization established in 2014 in Burgas, Bulgaria. Alef is a non-political, voluntary, democratic and autonomous public organization. ALEF'S MISSION is to research and promote the deep cultural, social and historical ties between Bulgarians and Jews throughout the centuries. We promote the unique act of saving 50,000 Bulgarian Jews during the Second World War and give due respect and gratitude to those Bulgarians who contributed to it. We strive to create initiatives that stimulate civic education about the Holocaust and preserve the memory of the victims of the darkest period in human history with the sole goal of never repeating it again. We fight against all forms of fascism, xenophobia, terrorism, racism, anti-Semitism. We develop relations with other ethnic communities in the spirit of generally accepted human values-respect, understanding and tolerance.
Floriane Azoulay
Direktorin
Berlin
Biography
Floriane Azoulay is the current Director of the Arolsen Archives. A French human rights expert, she was appointed head of the institution by the International Commission (IC) of the Arolsen Archives in 2016. In the past five years of her tenure, she has repositioned the institution, raised its public profile, and implemented digitization throughout the organization. A special focus of her work lies on exploring the synergies between the historical significance of the archival collection and its value for society today. Previously, Floriane Azoulay served as Head of the Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Department at the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) - an intergovernmental organization with 57 participating states. Floriane Azoulay has a Master's degree in Social Sciences from the EHESS in Paris, a Master's degree in Management from ESCP Europe, and a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of Paris-La Sorbonne.
Organisation
Arolsen Archives
caInternational organisation
The Arolsen Archives are the international center on Nazi persecution with the world's most comprehensive archive on the victims and survivors of National Socialism. The collection has information on about 17.5 million people and belongs to UNESCO's Memory of the World. It contains documents on the various victim groups targeted by the Nazi regime and is an important source of knowledge for society today.