’It is crucial to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day’

Castle Oud-Wassenaar This week is dedicated to commemorating the Holocaust. Lorena De Vita is Assistant Professor in the History of International Relations. Her research focuses on international diplomacy in the aftermath of the Holocaust, and on reparations after mass human rights violations and genocide. According to Lorena De Vita we can learn a lot from commemorating the Holocaust. "It is crucial to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It rests on us to take a moment and keep in mind the relevance of those crimes and those pages of history that are not comfortable to confront and to look at - but have a lot to teach us." Lorena de Vita is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, where she was recently elected as a Member of Wolfson College. At Utrecht University, she works as Assistant Professor in the History of International Relations Section, where she is leading a five-year research project on.