Holocaust education

Hungarian textbooks portray Jews positively, contain unbiased coverage of Holocaust - IMPACT-se

IMPACT-se released new research that found that Hungarian school textbooks include informative depictions of Judaism and empathetic, deep coverage of the Holocaust.

Rabbi Tamas Vero plays the Jewish shofar during the annual "March of the Living" to commemorate victims of the Holocaust, in Budapest, Hungary, May 5, 2024
Auschwitz, Poland

'World, Open Your Eyes'

Anne Frank's friend and step-sister Eva Schloss celebrates her 90th birthday in London.

Eva Schloss, Auschwitz survivor and founder of Anne Frank Trust UK, dies at 96

Holocaust survivor Nate Leipciger

"We have to march this year—it might be our last chance"


National Library, Shoah Foundation preserve Holocaust, October 7 records

This will make Holocaust educational materials more accessible to those with Israeli IP addresses.

 Shoah Foundation Executive Director Chair Dr. Robert Williams and NLI chairman Sallai Meridor

Holocaust property restoration: Not enough progress made, report finds

Blinken's address noted the countless works of art and cultural property stolen by Nazis which still have not been returned to their owners. 

Tourists stand near a disputed Wassily Kandinsky painting at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, July 10, 2019.

A glimpse of domestic Nazi life at Auschwitz

The idea of looking at the lives of those feeding off the concentration camp is good, but it’s unpleasant to watch these people for the entire running time, and it’s unpleasantness with no payoff.

 SCENES FROM The 'Zone of Interest'

Holocaust education bill fails in Washington State after debate over Jewish refugees, and Gaza war

Republicans felt that the latest version of the bill contained implied references to Gaza Palestinians’ experience during the war.

 The Washington State Capitol legislative building in Olympia, Washington, September 23, 2013.

Hillary Clinton: Youth 'woefully uninformed' on Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Clinton described an environment at the university where students who are highly engaged on global issues only regularly protest Israel, despite not knowing the history.  

 Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., September 19, 2022.

Letters to the Editor, February 14, 2024: Somewhat abstract

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters

Nina Gottlieb, Holocaust survivor who told her story in an award-winning documentary, dies at 91

In December, Gottlieb was invited to celebrate Hanukkah with Kamala Harris at the vice president’s residence in Washington, DC.

 Nina Gottlieb speaks in an interview, 2023.

Lawrence Langer, renowned scholar of Holocaust testimony, dies at 94

Langer died January 29 at a hospice near his home in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

 Lawrence Langer's “Holocaust Testimonies,” published in 1991, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

Holocaust survivors once again face terror following Oct. 7 - opinion

On October 7, memories of the past resurged as Never Again. Since then Holocaust survivors once again face terror. They live with existential fear.

 THE WRITER provides a consultation to a Holocaust survivor.

Holocaust education in Israeli high schools becomes non-mandatory following Oct. 7

The Education Ministry clarified that this decision would currently only be valid for the 2024 school year if it were to come to fruition.

 High school students take their mathematics matriculation examination (Bagrut), in at a high school in Rishon Lezion, on May 20, 2019.