Highlights were e.g. the commemorative event for the 60th anniversary of FIR in July 2011 in the Old Town Hall of Vienna and the Michel Vanderborght Award in the ballroom of the Belgian Parliament in 2013. We have also to mention the International Youth Meeting “The train of Thousand” in May 2012 in Auschwitz (together …
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XVI regular FIR – Congress in Sofia
28. September 2013
Invited by the Bulgarian antifascist Union we have the possibility to held our next regular congress of FIR in Sofia, the town of Georgii Dimitrov. In the last weeks all member federations received the written invitation for the FIR-congress from October 5/6, 2013 in Sofia. Since the XV regular congress in Berlin we could experience …
Exhibition “European resistance movement” in the European Parliament
24. September 2013
Europe, INIG, Resistance fight
8 July 2013 opened in the foyer of the European Parliament, the joint exhibition of the Institut des Vétérans and the International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR) – Association of Anti-Fascists about the “European resistance movement against Nazism” on invitation of the Vice-President of the European Parliament Miguel Angel Martinez and in presence of numerous …
FIR awarded Michel-Vanderborght Price
24. September 2013
On an impressive ceremony at the second weekend of July the International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR) – Association of Anti-Fascists awarded the Michel Vanderborght Price in the ballroom of the Belgian Parliament in Brussels to eight personalities and initiatives. This prize, named after the Belgian Partisans and last president of the FIR, should honor …
75 Years International Brigades in Spain
1. Januar 2012
We wish all comrades, friends and combatants a good and peaceful New Year 2012.
Nous souhaitons à tous les camarades, amis et alliés une bonne et paisible nouvelle année 2012.
Wir wünschen allen Kameradinnen und Kameraden, Freunden und Mitstreitern ein gutes und friedliches Jahr 2012.
Vilmos Hanti (President)
Dr. Ulrich Schneider …
Obituary Michel Vanderborght
12. September 2010
(1925 – 2010)
With deep mourning we must report the death of the president of the international federation of the resistance fighters (FIR) – federation of the anti-fascists, Michel Vanderborght. On 12 September 2010 he died at the age of 85 years.
Already as a young man he joined the resistance and fought himself actively in the …
Declaration of FIR to the 65th anniversary of Potsdam conference
19. Juli 2010
Der 8. und 9. Mai 2010 war für die Staaten und Völker nicht allein Europas der 65. Jahrestag des Sieges über den Faschismus, der Tag der Befreiung vom Faschismus. Dieses Datum markiert den Beginn einer neuen Periode des Zusammenlebens der Völker in Europa, die trotz Kaltem Krieg und militärischer Aggression der …
Declaration of FIR to the decision of European High Court of Human Rights in the case of Wassili Kononow
17. Mai 2010
Vor zwei Jahren konnte die Internationale Föderation der Widerstandskämpfer (FIR) – Bund der Antifaschisten, die Dachvereinigung von Organisationen ehemaliger Widerstandskämpfer, Partisanen, Angehörigen der Anti-Hitler-Koalition, Verfolgten des Naziregimes und Antifaschisten heutiger Generationen aus über zwanzig Ländern Europas und Israels ein Urteil des Europäischen Gerichtshofs im Fall des lettischen Partisanen Wassilij …
8th May 2010 – 65th anniversary of day of liberation – day of victory
19. April 2010
Vor 65 Jahren erlebte die Menschheit am 8. Mai 1945 die endgültige militärische Zerschlagung des deutschen Faschismus.
Dieses Datum markiert den Sieg über das menschenverachtenden Regimes des Hitler-Faschismus,
Die faschistischen Weltherrschaftspläne wurden durch das gemeinsame Handeln der Anti-Hitler-Koalition gestoppt.
Es waren die Angehörigen der Streitkräfte der Alliierten, vor allem die Angehörigen der sowjetischen …
Political declaration of the XV regular congress of FIR
16. Februar 2010
The International Federation of the Resistance fighters (FIR) – Association of Anti-fascists has a moral order as “Ambassador of peace “of the United Nations to use itself for non-military conflict solutions in the world.
We do demand from there in particular related to the current conflicts in
the Middle East not to permit an escalation and to …
