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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 345

Holocaust education

Illustrative: German high school students from the Reclam gymnasium Leipzig read excerpts of the bilingual book 'Der Brief/La Lettre' detailing the results of their research into the life of Holocaust victim Martin Kober at a book launch ceremony in Leipzig's town hall, November 27, 2012. (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP)
August 19, 2024, 1:30 am
‘Gestapo Game’ at Tim Walz’s school was part of a trend Holocaust educators now reject
Amid reports that the VP candidate helped end an outdated role playing game while a teacher in Minnesota, one thing is certain – he condemned such exercises in his master’s thesis
By Andrew Lapin and PHILISSA CRAMER
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, accompanied by Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, right, reads a book to children at People Helping People, a shelter for families experiencing homelessness in Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 29, 2019. (AP/Jim Mone)
August 9, 2024, 4:11 am
Lauded by former students, Tim Walz wrote his master’s thesis on Holocaust education
Before entering politics, the Minnesota governor was a beloved teacher with focus on genocide studies; participated in US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s first conference for educators
By Andrew Lapin
Photo of Yitskhok Rudashevski in the 1930s. (Courtesy of Ghetto Fighters' House Museum, Israel/ Photo Archive and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)
July 20, 2024, 7:55 am
Now online, diary of teen shot by Nazis tells of desperation, fear, hope in Vilna Ghetto
In its second web-based exhibition, YIVO makes available the lucid observations of Yitskhok Rudashevski, a 15-year-old made wise beyond his years by a life of oppression
By Cathryn J. Prince
Yellow badges and a piece of luggage are displayed at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, July 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
July 8, 2024, 6:26 pm
Yad Vashem launches new conservation facility to restore and preserve artifacts
Before vast new multistory building opened, says Museum chairman Dani Dayan, ‘it was very difficult to exhibit our treasures that were kept in our vaults. They were kind of secret’
By SHLOMO MOR and Maya Alleruzzo
Portraits of Holocaust survivors displayed at the Museum of Jewish Heritage as a vintage German train car, like those used to transport people to Auschwitz and other death camps, sits on tracks outside the museum, in New York, Sunday, March 31, 2019. (AP/Richard Drew)
May 24, 2024, 8:18 am
NYC Holocaust museum offers free trips to eighth graders from city’s public schools
$2.5 million program will cover transportation, guides and take-home materials for schools as city seeks to mitigate rising antisemitism throughout the US
By AP
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May 8, 2024, 11:15 pm
Julianna Margulies – The vital importance of Holocaust Education
Julianna, known for her role in ER & The Goodwife is an Emmy award-winner and helped to found the Holocaust Educator School Partnership.
A delegation from the Arab-Muslim world during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, part of the flagship program of the Sharaka NGO to promote regional understanding through Holocaust education, April 16, 2024. (Courtesy)
April 26, 2024, 9:07 am
In Israel, activists from Muslim countries denounce common threat of radical Islam
Holocaust education trip provides chance for regional civil society leaders to visit sites of Oct. 7 massacre, break stereotypes, and discuss Israel’s role in the region
By Gianluca Pacchiani
The front of James Fenimore Cooper Middle School, part of Fairfax County Public Schools (CC BY G. Edward Johnson, Own work).
March 18, 2024, 12:50 pm
US school district offers ‘opt out’ option for Holocaust survivor testimony
After Fairfax County Public Schools email states students can skip presentation, Jewish federation says it was only meant for Jews due to previous ‘bullying, teasing, taunting’
By ToI Staff
A student on a trip to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in modern-day Poland on April 27, 2014. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
March 5, 2024, 4:22 pm
High school visits to concentration camps in Poland given go-ahead for summer
The annual trips, a rite of passage for Israeli youth, had been reinstated after a three-year break but then canceled after October 7, at the start of the Israel-Hamas war
By Gavriel Fiske
A Holocaust survivor's photo and quote projected on the Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, January 27, 2024. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for LIVE2TELL By Gillian Laub/AFP)
January 28, 2024, 1:08 pm
Images of survivors projected on NYC landmarks to launch new Holocaust archive
Digital project produced by actress Amy Schumer and digital storyteller Kira Pollack documents remaining survivors’ stories with photography, video, and first-person interviews
By julia GERGELY
Artifacts from the Kraus family, who survived the Holocaust, on display at the Queensland Holocaust Museum in Brisbane, Australia, June 2023. (Queensland Holocaust Museum and Education Center)
January 27, 2024, 1:12 am
In Australia, a new Holocaust museum doubles down on its mission after Oct. 7
Because many of the Queensland Holocaust Museum’s visitors have never met a Jew, its strategy of outreach takes on added importance in its quest to educate on racial tolerance
By Nomi Kaltmann
Political activist and writer Elie Wiesel on November 3, 1980 in New York, New York. (Santi Visalli/Getty Images via JTA)
January 4, 2024, 8:39 am
To protect Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night,’ US judge blocks part of ‘bizarre’ book ban law
Iowa judge Stephen Locher says that the ‘broad’ law banning books that depict sex acts could prevent schools from stocking Holocaust education books
By Andrew Lapin
Holocaust survivor and TikTok influencer Gidon Lev speaks at a European Jewish Association symposium in Prague, January 2023. (Courtesy)
November 20, 2023, 12:23 am
Holocaust survivor quits TikTok, cites failure to confront antisemitism
Jews are a ‘token minority’ receiving constant threats of violence on the platform, Gidon Lev’s life partner says
By Canaan Lidor
The November 1938 file photo shows a group of people standing outside a Jewish-owned shop in an unnamed German town, after Kristallnacht, when Nazi-incited mass riots left more than 91 Jews dead, damaged more than 1,000 synagogues and left some 7,500 Jewish businesses ransacked and looted. (AP Photo, File)
November 9, 2023, 11:48 am
Holocaust survivor recalls Kristallnacht horrors in interactive VR project
Still residing in Munich, 91-year-old Charlotte Knobloch finds herself living through a new wave of hatred but says she won’t give up her trust in modern-day Germany
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Anne Frank in her school in Amsterdam. (Public domain)
November 6, 2023, 9:25 pm
Outcry as German ‘Anne Frank’ daycare plans rename as kids indifferent to her story
School in Tangerhütte intends to rebrand as ‘World Explorers,’ reportedly because migrant families aren’t familiar with story of Holocaust diarist; mayor says move not finalized
By JTA and ToI Staff
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