Brazil joined the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) last month as an observer country, the government announced in a released statement.
The IHRA unites governments, international organizations and experts who have the common goal of combating anti-Semitism and preserving the memory of the Holocaust.
“Brazilian diplomacy will seek to work within the IHRA to promote education and research on the Holocaust, as well as to improve national policies to combat anti-Semitism, in the context of the Brazilian commitment to combat all forms of racism, intolerance and discrimination,” said the government.
Brazil is home to the second-largest Jewish community in Latin America and the 10th-largest in the world.
Two former members of the Brazilian Foreign Service—the late diplomat Aracy de Carvalho Guimarães Rosa and late Ambassador Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas—were given the title of “Righteous Among the Nations” by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem in honor of their efforts to save hundreds of Jews from Nazi persecution.