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


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.

Protests for new elections, release of hostages held in cities across Israel

Families of the hostages were joined in their weekly mass rally by the descendants of Holocaust survivors and leaders in Israeli society as the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

 PRIMAL SCREAM at a protest outside the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem, calling for the release of the hostages.

Ensuring that 'Never Again' will not happen again - opinion

First, we owe them the promise to never forget and more importantly, to continue to teach the lessons of the Holocaust.

 KOL ISRAEL leaders attend a Holocaust Remembrance Day event at the UN

The life of Roman Vishniac comes to the big screen

The documentary Vishniac premiered in New York on January 19 and will open in Los Angeles on February 2.

 PHOTOGRAPHER ROMAN VISHNIAC in Berlin.

Remembrance Ambassadors in Jerusalem tell stories of surviving the Holocaust

During the course of the evening, the audience will hear half a dozen ambassadors relate the Holocaust experiences of six survivors, interspersed by musical interludes.

 HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR Pinchas Ronen with the daughters of French Righteous Among the Nations Inductee Germaine Chesnau, who saved him.

Museum of Jewish Heritage tackles issue of Holocaust education for children

Museums and educators are wrestling with the question of how to reach younger audiences further and further removed from the horrors of the Holocaust.

 The exhibit also includes live-action videos.

Rock star Alanis Morissette uncovers her family’s Holocaust history on PBS’ ‘Finding Your Roots’

Seven-time Grammy Award winner Alanis Morissette was raised Catholic and is now a practicing Buddhist. But her mother was born in Hungary to two Holocaust survivor parents.

 Alanis Morissette shown on PBS' celebrity genealogy series "Finding Your Roots."