For months, the International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR) – Association of Anti-fascists and its member federations follows with great concern the political development in Turkey. It was already visible that the government under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan started on one hand an increasingly expansionist policy with the support of IS troops in Syria, on …
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The International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR) – Association of Antifascists remembers Elie Wiesel
3. Juli 2016
We have to say a last far-well to Elie Wiesel, who died in the first days of July 2016 at the age of 87 years. He was an international well-known survivor of the CC Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Born in Sighet in Transylvania, he was deported 1944 with his family to the extermination camp Auschwitz, where …
Protect political rights in all of Europe – no persecution of communist parties and ban their political symbols
27. Mai 2016
FIR as umbrella organization of veterans, partisans and former resistance fighters and antifascists of today’s generations is seriously concerned about the danger for political freedom in several European countries. The persecution of Communist parties, of Communist and antifascist Resistance fighters, the ban on the use of their symbols which began after the overthrow of socialism …
Stop the historical revisionism in Europe
27. Mai 2016
71 years after the liberation from Fascism and war, FIR sees with great concern serious problems in several European countries, especially in Central and Eastern Europe (Poland, the Baltics, Hungary, Ukraine, and Croatia et.al.) because of historical revisionist trends.
It is unacceptable that monuments of the liberators are dismantled and destroyed by the today’s political governments …
FIR reaffirms its solidarity with the refugees
27. Mai 2016
FIR – the federation of former veterans, partisans and Resistance fighters, antifascists of today’s generations – recalls its declaration „Helping refugees – combat the causes of flight – human dignity for everyone – together against racism!” (March 2016). On this fundament the leading body of FIR supports the following declaration of our Greek comrades (PEAEA) …
Letter of FIR president Vilmos Hanti
1. Juli 2015
Dear EC members,
Chairmen of the member federations and members of FIR,
Dear Antifascist Comrades,
While our eyes and attention are focused on what kind of a future lies ahead of Europe and the world, we cannot forget what had happened yesterday, where we come from, what kind of lessons our common past carries.
The mission of FIR, the …
70 year old world historical victory – Speech of Vilmos Hanti, president of FIR
14. Mai 2015
Let’s unite with renewed resistance against new types of fascism!
Speech Vilmos Hanti (Moscow, May 7, 2015)
Dear Antifascist Comrades,
On behalf of the 64 year old International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR), which operates in around 30 countries with more than 60 member-organizations, I greet you cordially and congratulate you all for the organization of this very …
Speech of General Secretary Ulrich Schneider in Auschwitz
10. Mai 2015
As Secretary-General of the International Federation of Resistance Fighters – Association of Anti-fascists, I am pleased and proud that this great project of European youth meeting could take place again under the common slogan of historical commemoration.
It is an impressive activity connected with the 70th anniversary of liberation from fascism and war, which is in …
Train of 1000 – International Youth-meeting Auschwitz 2015
1. März 2015
The great event, the international youth meetings “Train of Thousand” is in its final stage of preparation. Born in the joint responsibility of the “Institut des Vétérans”, the Belgian Auschwitz Foundation and the FIR will be – under the auspices of Philippe, King of the Belgians – in May 2015 again around 1000 young people …
Declaration for Minsk II – treatment
1. März 2015
The International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR) as an umbrella organization of former partisans and fighters of the anti-Hitler coalition, persecuted by the Nazi regime and their families as well as today’s anti-fascists and as “Ambassador of Peace” by the United Nations facing the current situation in Ukraine sees itself forced to the following statement:
We …
