Sweden offered to host an international conference next year or in early 2000 on international Holocaust education. The announcement came at the conclusion of the Washington Conference on Holocaust-era Assets, during which a task force pushed the assembled nations and organizations to promote Holocaust education, remembrance and research. The task force is the first inter-governmental effort on the subject.
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