Holocaust education

What this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day revealed about Jewish fear

Holocaust remembrance carries meaning when it shapes how societies govern, educate, regulate, and protect. Its purpose is not only to honor the past, but to safeguard living communities.

Voice of the People CEO Shirel Dagan-Levy
US Vice President JD Vance speaks at Royalston Square in Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 22, 2026.

Just say ‘Jew’: JD Vance’s Holocaust post shows why naming Jews and Nazis still matters -editorial

Mark Wilf and his family outside of Auschwitz during March of the Living.

Jewish unity is the true lesson of Holocaust remembrance - opinion

 The main entrance to the Vilnius Ghetto in Lithuania during World War II.

Holocaust education: Why telling Lithuania’s Jewish story matters more than ever - opinion


Two Holocaust survivors tell their tale in a new short documentary

As Holocaust survivors number fewer and fewer, the two men’s story was important even before Oct. 7

 Prisoners in the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, December 19, 1938. Heinrich Hoffman Collection.

Holocaust memorial in Denmark defaced with antisemitic graffiti, Palestinian flag

The memorial focuses on the dangerous efforts made by ordinary Danish citizens who risked their own lives to save Jews during the Nazi occupation of the country.

Police stand guard outside a synagogue in Krystalgade in Copenhagen, February 15, 2015.

Portuguese Holocaust museum marks anniversary of Kristallnacht

The ceremony featured the lighting of a memorial flame in front of 500 students from schools across Portugal who took part in the event.

 Michael Rothwell the director of the Holocaust and the Jewish museums in Porto (left) and Sebastião Feyo (right) president of the Porto municipal assembly, with the school students

Rising death toll in Gaza is tragic, but Holocaust scholars should know it's not genocide - opinion

Since Israel’s founding in 1948, the Palestinian population in what now includes Israel, the West Bank and Gaza has risen from 1.4 million to 6.6 million

 Israeli soldiers look up at pictures of victims of the Holocaust at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial centre, ahead of the Holocaust Remembrance Day starting this evening, at the Hall of Names, in Jerusalem April 27, 2022.

New book reveals Pius XII's complicity during Holocaust

In 1945, after Germany’s surrender, Pius XII delivered a speech which focused on what he claimed was a Nazi campaign against the Church.

 POPE PIUS XII appears in an undated file photo from the archives of Vatican newspaper ‘Osservatore Romano.’

Storyteller Alex Teplish reinvents Holocaust education for new generations

This book and its accompanying interactive virtual museum have won various awards and recognitions, including the Silver Medal of the Independent Publisher’s Award.

 Top left: Author Alex Teplish; bottom left: A page from Teplish's book which shows the visual effect of remembering his grandfather's story and the Holocaust; top right: The cover of the book; Bottom right: An advertisement of the book and website

21st Warsaw Jewish Film Festival brings Israeli talents

A different exploration of Jewish destiny in light of the Holocaust is offered by Tal Kantor in her award-winning short animation film Letter to a Pig, now making its Polish premiere.

TAL KANTOR filming at a Free Farm for pigs

As nationalism rises in Serbia, a Holocaust education seminar for teachers gets more popular

In recent years, local fascist and neo-Nazi groups in Serbia have become emboldened under President Aleksandar Vučić.

 Borka Marinkovic, far left, talks about her experiences as the daughter of Holocaust survivors with a group of Serbian teachers during an August 2023 TOLI education seminar in Šabac, Serbia.

There's no Jewish leader that spoke for us with as much integrity as Elie Wiesel - opinion

As a teacher, he was uniquely compelling and continues to inspire through The Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies.

 THE WRITER visits Elie Wiesel in his office.

Israel expands Holocaust testimony project, allocates NIS 7 million

In a statement released on Wednesday, Chikli expressed his gratitude for the government's approval of the Holocaust survivors' documentation project.

Visitors seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on April 16, 2023, ahead of Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day.