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Robin Bigga-Piskernig, second from right, is interning as part of an Austrian program that sends youth abroad to learn and teach about the Holocaust. From left, art teacher Janet Lust Ganes, foundation president Olivia Mattis, two students from Lawrence High School and foundation administrator Matthew Spirn take part in an art exhibit dedicated to Sousa Mendes, a Holocaust rescuer. (Courtesy Sousa Mendes Foundation via JTA)
June 28, 2026, 4:25 pm
Austria once denied its Nazi past. Now it sends young people abroad to confront it
Instead of military service, Austrian volunteers can work in nonprofits around the world, helping preserve the memory of the Holocaust and its victims
By Stewart Ain
Certified elementary school librarian Sarah Pepin speaks at a State Board of Education meeting in Austin on June 22, 2026. (Aiden Gonzalez/The Texas Tribune via JTA)
June 27, 2026, 9:50 am
Texas creates required reading list that includes Anne Frank and the Bible
State board of education votes 9-5 for the list, over objections from Jewish leaders concerned about injecting Christian content into lessons for the state’s 5.5 million public school students
By Grace Gilson and Andrew Lapin
Screen capture of the TribeTalk website, June 26, 2026. (TribeTalk)
June 26, 2026, 8:40 am
Massachusetts principal under fire for apologizing for antisemitism discussion
Obliquely worded letter to parents sparks outcry for seeming to regret teaching about Holocaust; in fact, it reportedly apologized for lesson on modern-day antisemitism that used material by pro-Israel org
By Andrew Lapin
People visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem, on January 9, 2025. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
May 29, 2026, 6:51 am
Yad Vashem to open Holocaust education center in Munich, first outside Israel
‘In a world without Holocaust survivors, one needs new ways to tell the story,’ says head of Berlin-based Friends of Yad Vashem; extension also planned in Germany’s Leipzig
By Zev Stub and JTA
Holocaust stories and images generated by artificial intelligence are sparking debate among educators and historians. (Illustration by Grace Yagel for JTA)
May 12, 2026, 5:33 am
Experts debate whether AI-generated Holocaust content aids memory or distorts it
A World Jewish Congress clip of Anne Frank highlights potential and peril of new tools as firsthand testimony dies out — and opportunists capitalize on endless supply of ‘slop’
By Toby Axelrod
Historian Johannes Spohr's grandfather, Rudolf Spohr, as an ordnance officer of the German Army High Command shortly before his trip to Crimea, August 1942. (Courtesy/ family collection)
April 15, 2026, 3:44 am
My grandfather, the Nazi: A German historian helps families unravel forebears’ crimes
After discovering his own patriarch’s role in the Holocaust, scholar Johannes Spohr offers workshops that confront uncomfortably specific truths amid a wider culture of remembrance
By Robert Philpot
Liesbeth Heenk at a Holocaust Survivor Conference in Paris, October 2025 (Courtesy)
April 14, 2026, 1:13 pm
Who still reads Holocaust stories? A publisher sees shifting trends after October 7
Demand for Holocaust memoirs is falling amid rising antisemitism and changing consumer patterns. A non-Jewish Dutch woman has made it her mission to keep survivors’ voices on shelves
By Zev Stub
Holocaust survivor Tommy Shaham gives testimony during a Zikaron BaSalon living room commemoration in this undated photo. (Courtesy of Zikaron BaSalon)
April 13, 2026, 8:08 am
From generation to generation: Holocaust and Oct. 7 meet in intimate salon memorials
As the Zikaron BaSalon program grows to over 2 million participants worldwide, former hostages and their families learn from survivors how telling their stories can aid in rehabilitation
By Bernard Dichek
Students and their teachers from Berlin’s Refik Veseli School and Tirana’s Gjimnazi Sami Frashëri pose for a group shot in front of Albania’s Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2026. (Larry Luxner/ JTA)
April 7, 2026, 3:48 pm
In Albania, teens at German school discover tribal code of honor that saved Jews in WWII
Students at Refik Veseli Schule, named for an Albanian honored as Righteous Among the Nations, learn about ‘besa,’ a precept that mandates the protection of strangers fleeing persecution
By Larry Luxner
Holocaust survivor Ginette Kolinka, 100, attends a commemorative ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the return of death camp deportees, in Paris, France, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)
March 31, 2026, 1:31 pm
At 101, Holocaust survivor credits Spielberg for her ongoing fight against hatred
Ginette Kolinka, who survived Auschwitz, stayed silent for decades until Hollywood director’s foundation interviewed her in 1997; now, she shares her story in media and schools
By John Leicester
Israeli high school students at a Holocaust memorial site in Poland, March 2026. (Courtesy/Roni Hazon Weiss)
March 5, 2026, 5:32 pm
Stuck in Poland as war broke out, 90 Jerusalem-area students brought home via Egypt’s Taba
High schoolers on an educational heritage trip were given extra security, temporarily barred from leaving hotel, after US-Israeli strikes on Iran disrupted travel plans, principal says
By Zev Stub
From 'Bau: Artist at War' about animator and Holocaust survivor Joseph Bau. (Courtesy)
February 24, 2026, 9:50 pm
Film about Israeli ‘Walt Disney’ lends urgency to save Joseph Bau museum
‘Bau: Artist at War’ tells story of Holocaust survivor, animator and master forgerer, with his daughters seeking to stave off demolition of his Tel Aviv former studio
By Jessica Steinberg
The Diary of Anne Frank has been translated into more than 75 languages. (John Halpern via JTA)
February 12, 2026, 9:51 pm
New law could make Anne Frank and ‘Night’ mandatory reading for Texas public schools
A proposed first-of-its-kind state-required reading list recognizes the importance of Holocaust education amid continuing tensions over who controls what students read
By Andrew Lapin
Holocaust survivors and guests sit at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi concentration and extermination camp, during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of its liberation, in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, January 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
February 6, 2026, 4:14 am
‘Never Again’ strategy: Facing soaring antisemitism and Holocaust ‘erasure,’ how should Jews fight back?
Defund the ADL? Bet the house on Jewish day schools and culture? Deemphasize Holocaust education… or legislate it? Jewish thinkers are floating lots of ideas. None is likely a panacea
By Ben Sales
Author Sarah Hurwitz appears on a panel at the annual General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America, alongside, from left, Eric Fingerhut, JFNA’s president and CEO; Israeli author Micah Goodman, and Richard Marceau of Canada’s Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Washington, DC, November 16, 2025. (Courtesy JFNA via JTA)
November 28, 2025, 1:36 am
Former Obama aide Sarah Hurwitz ignites social media with remarks about Holocaust education
Progressives, human rights advocates and pro-Palestinian activists slam the author’s comments on how some portrayals of the genocide can also cause young people to vilify Israel
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
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