Tag: Holocaust Education
IDF General Staff visits Yad Vashem for day of Holocaust education
The Israel Defense Forces General Staff held a study day dedicated to commemorating the Holocaust at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Monday. Israel marks Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, over the course of 24 hours starting on the...
Denmark announces anti-Semitism action plan that boosts Holocaust education
Denmark announced earlier this month that it is launching an action plan to better tackle anti-Semitism in the country.
The country’s new plan includes 15 initiatives, five of which aim at increasing knowledge about the Holocaust and...
Tennessee Jewish group slams school-board’s decision to ban Holocaust book ‘Maus’
The Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga in Tennessee is criticizing a local school board’s decision to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust book from its eighth-grade curriculum.
The federation’s executive director, Michael Dzik, spoke about the...
Yad Vashem chairman invites Whoopi Goldberg to visit Holocaust museum
The chairman of Yad Vashem on Tuesday invited talk-show host Whoopi Goldberg to visit the Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem to learn more about the causes of the Shoah. The invitation came on the...
Tennessee school board removes graphic novel ‘Maus,’ author calls it ‘Orwellian’
A school board in Tennessee unanimously voted to remove a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on the Holocaust from its schools because it includes eight minor curse words such as “damn” and an illustration of a...
Roughly one-third of teens in Canada, US think Holocaust is ‘exaggerated or fabricated’
Nearly 33 percent of students in elementary and high schools in the United States and Canada who participated in a new survey said they weren’t sure if the Holocaust happened, or if it did,...
Holocaust a ‘minor matter,’ right-wing Romanian party claims
A recent statement by the right-wing, populist Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) party that Romania’s school system should cut back on Holocaust education and focus on “Romanian national values” has caused an...
Texas governor names five appointees to new Holocaust, genocide and anti-Semitism commission
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed five people to the state’s new Holocaust, Genocide and Anti-Semitism Advisory Commission.
The commission, which was created in September, “shall conduct a study on anti-Semitism in the state, provide...
Erdan submits UN resolution opposing Holocaust denial and distortion
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan has submitted a resolution to the U.N. General Assembly to combat Holocaust denial and Holocaust distortion.
The resolution defines Holocaust denial; calls on countries and social-media companies...
Massachusetts teens offered $2,000 scholarship for March of Living trip to Poland, Israel
A Massachusetts-based Jewish group is offering a $2,000 scholarship for local Jewish high school juniors and seniors who qualify for an upcoming March of the Living visit to Israel and Poland in an effort...