Borussia Dortmund: a club delegation visits the World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem (Israel)

A delegation from Borussia Dortmund (Bundesliga), including CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke and managing director Carsten Cramer, visited the World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem (Israel) on 23/01/2020, according to the German club on the same date.

The organisation of this fifth edition of the World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Memorial, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center, coincides with the 75^th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland) by the Red Army on 27/01/1945. The Forum brings together some forty heads of state and government.

"BVB has decided not only to continue its preventative educational work but to gradually add to and expand upon it as well. One measure that will be taken towards this end is that Borussia Dortmund will soon sign the working definition of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA, see below)," said the club, which donated €1m to finance the extension of the Yad Vashem Memorial in April 2019.

"Twelve years ago, BVB committed to fighting against anti-Semitism and discrimination of any kind…