Ignorance about the Holocaust is growing (Opinion)
5 years, 11 months ago

Ignorance about the Holocaust is growing (Opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Harry D. Wall is on the Board of Directors of the Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights. A recent CNN poll in Europe revealed that about a third of the 7,000 European respondents across seven countries knew “just a little or nothing at all” about the Holocaust. The concern isn’t only that the Holocaust is fading from memory, it’s that the lessons that can be applied to the ongoing human rights abuses and threats to democracy are also being lost. Today, January 27, is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and there is no better time to call for a renewed effort to educate young people about the Nazi genocide of 6 million Jews.

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Keir Starmer pledges to make Holocaust lessons mandatory for all children
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Keir Starmer pledges to make Holocaust lessons mandatory for all children

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to make sure every child …

Is historical knowledge of the Holocaust enough to keep neo-Nazism at bay?
1 year, 9 months ago

Is historical knowledge of the Holocaust enough to keep neo-Nazism at bay?

ABC  

You can hear Professor Avril Alba discuss the limits and long-term efficacy of Holocaust education with Andrew West on the Religion and Ethics Report. As the survivor generation passes, those who believe that this period of history still has import in the present must confront the difficulty of communicating both emotional and historical knowledge, especially if they hope to generate …

Amsterdam launching new Holocaust support program for educators
1 year, 10 months ago

Amsterdam launching new Holocaust support program for educators

NL Times  

The city of Amsterdam intends to establish a new support center for schools who have questions or need advice about Holocaust education and anti-Semitism. The plan was announced on Friday, about a week after the Anne Frank House revealed new research showing that 42 percent of secondary school teachers have witnessed anti-Semitic incidents in the classroom in the past year. …

Holocaust Memorial Day 2023: Andrew Tate isn’t the only form of hate schools are tackling in the classroom
1 year, 11 months ago

Holocaust Memorial Day 2023: Andrew Tate isn’t the only form of hate schools are tackling in the classroom

The Independent  

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"Shocking," Dutch PM responds Holocaust doubters; Dangerous says Remembrance Committee
1 year, 11 months ago

"Shocking," Dutch PM responds Holocaust doubters; Dangerous says Remembrance Committee

NL Times  

Prime Minister Mark Rutte is shocked by research results showing that almost a quarter of Dutch young people have doubts about the persecution of the Jews during World War II. Rutte thinks it is the role of the government, society, and at home to “jointly determine that we do not want this.” At home, at the dinner table, in the …

Op-Ed: At my high school, the Holocaust is barely taught in history class. That scares me
2 years, 9 months ago

Op-Ed: At my high school, the Holocaust is barely taught in history class. That scares me

LA Times  

“What’s the difference between a Jew and a Boy Scout?” a friend asked, with a broad grin on his face, as I sat down in my seventh-grade science class. Almost 1 in 3 American adults say they believe that fewer than 2 million people were killed, and about 1 in 10 people aren’t sure the Holocaust even occurred. Last spring, …

Banning books about the Holocaust is a dangerous step towards revising history
2 years, 11 months ago

Banning books about the Holocaust is a dangerous step towards revising history

The Independent  

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Remembering the Holocaust
2 years, 11 months ago

Remembering the Holocaust

The Hindu  

Marked by the United Nations each year on the 27th of January, International Holocaust Remembrance Day provides an opportunity to recount the atrocities of the Holocaust that resulted in the death of an estimated 6 million Jews. Holocaust distortion and denial As the Holocaust recedes in time, the forces of antisemitism, racial and religious intolerance, and discrimination and hate speech …

UN chief decries antisemitism, urges stand against hatred
2 years, 11 months ago

UN chief decries antisemitism, urges stand against hatred

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres decried the resurgence of antisemitism in comments Tuesday night at a service commemorating victims of the Nazi Holocaust, and he urged people around the world to “stand firm against hate and bigotry anywhere and everywhere.” The U.N. chief said he was alarmed to learn recently that barely half of adults worldwide have heard of …

UN approves resolution condemning denial of Nazi Holocaust
2 years, 11 months ago

UN approves resolution condemning denial of Nazi Holocaust

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly approved an Israeli- The 193-member world body approved the resolution by consensus -- without a vote -- and with a bang of a gavel by Assembly President Abdulla Shahid who met with a group of Holocaust survivors before the assembly meeting. “And as this happens following the greatest crime in human history, now …

Texas school official tells teachers to offer "opposing view" to the Holocaust
3 years, 2 months ago

Texas school official tells teachers to offer "opposing view" to the Holocaust

Salon  

A top administrator with the Carroll Independent School District in Southlakem, Texas, is under fire for advising teachers to present "opposing" viewpoints if they're going to provide books to their students about the Holocaust, NBC News reports. "Just try to remember the concepts of 3979," Peddy said in a recording taken secretly by a Carrol staff member, referring to a …

As Hate Incidents Grow, More States Require Schools To Teach The Holocaust
5 years, 5 months ago

As Hate Incidents Grow, More States Require Schools To Teach The Holocaust

Huff Post  

Kim Kenneson of Johnson City, Tennessee, and Nicholas Turner of Zachary, Louisiana, at the U.S. Lisa Clarke, who has been teaching middle school units on the Holocaust in Maryland for 16 years, said her students can relate to exclusionary laws, like those aimed at Jews in Germany in the 1930s, because “middle schoolers are all about who’s in the club …

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