The FIR and its member federations remember Benjamin Ferencz, American prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, who died in Florida at the age of 103. He was the last prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials still living.After graduating from Harvard Law, he fought in the U.S. Army toward the end of World War II and …
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Winning the peace – not the war!
23. Februar 2023
Statement of FIR one year after the beginning of the war in Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, Russian troops invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. The invasion has caused tens of thousands of deaths on both sides and has exacerbated the role of NATO in the area.As a direct outcome of the …
FIR is in solidarity with the victims of the earthquake disaster in Syria and Turkey.
7. Februar 2023
The heavy earthquakes of the weekend in the Kurdish border area between Syria and Turkey have claimed nearly 5,000 lives according to information confirmed so far. Several hundred buildings in the affected major cities have been destroyed or are in danger of collapse. Several thousand people are still missing under the destruction.The FIR expresses its …
Obituary Mikhail A. Moiseev
18. Dezember 2022
It is with deep sadness that we bid farewell today to the Chairman of the Russian Union of Veterans, General Mikhail Alexeyevich Moiseev. He died a few weeks before his 84th birthday.Mikhail A. Moiseev was in the army all his life. Marked by the experience of the Nazi-German invasion and the Great Patriotic War, which …
Belgrade International Anti-Fascist Conference of FIR
28. Oktober 2022
October 24-25, 2022, the International Antifascist Conference of FIR, supported by the Serbian veterans’ organization SUBNOR, took place in Belgrade. Delegates of veterans and antifascist organizations from more than 20 countries discussed the danger of right wing development in Europe of today. This conference was well attended by the media. The main TV-news on Monday …
“Anti-fascism today and the danger of right-wing politics in Europe”.
19. Oktober 2022
International antifascist conference of FIR and SUBNOR in October 2022.
Under this slogan, FIR organizes – supported by SUBNOR Servia – an international antifascist conference in Belgrade on October 24, 2022. The event will take place in the framework of the anniversary of the uprising in Yugoslavia 80 years ago and the commemoration of the liberation …
Protest against destruction of soviet memorial in Riga, Latvia
24. August 2022
With horror and indignation the International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR) had to learn that the state institutions of Latvia have actually begun with the destruction of the Soviet “Monument to the Liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German-fascist invaders”. The monument was erected in 1985 to mark the 40th anniversary of the …
The FIR is dismayed about the attitude of the German foreign minister Baerbock to the reparation question
29. Juli 2022
Those who expected that the new German government would show a more realistic attitude than previous governments on the issue of recognizing Greek reparations claims as compensation for German war crimes and the theft of Greek financial assets during the period of occupation were sorely disappointed during the visit of German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.
It …
Obituary Carlo Smuraglia
2. Juni 2022
It is with great sadness that we have learnt of the death of Carlo Smuraglia, Honorary President of the International Federation of Reistance Fighters (FIR) and of the Italian Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d’Italia – ANPI.
Carlo Smuraglia
A Partisan, an Antifascist, former member of the Italian Parliament, a University Professor and a Lawyer who devoted his career …
May 8/9, 1945 remains Liberation Day/ Victory Day
5. Mai 2022
In times of military confrontation, the memory of May 8/9, 1945, the day of liberation from fascism and war in Europe, is more complicated.
The slogan “Liberation from fascism” was clear to everyone in 1945. Today, too, we clearly warn against the influence of neo-fascist forces in many countries of Europe. At the same time, we …
