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"


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."

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.