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Holocaust Association sends educational books to prisons in Arizona

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The Phoenix Holocaust Association (PHA) has donated hundreds of books about the Holocaust and other genocides to prisons across Arizona. The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry thanked PHA for the books in a Twitter post last month,...
The Holocaust Museum LA. Credit: Belzarch via Wikimedia Commons.

Los Angeles Holocaust museum secures $2.5 million in new state funding

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California state lawmakers on Thursday announced $2.5 million in funding to support the expansion of Holocaust Museum LA, including for a new learning center pavilion and new programming for younger learners at the Los Angeles...
Holocaust Remembrance Day tribute. Credit: Israel Defense Forces/Facebook.

Some ideas must be debated, but not historical facts

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Some Jewish liberals say that they saw this coming. There were those who believed that the movement to stop the teaching of critical race theory in the schools was bound to negatively impact teaching about the...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom views “The Hitler Letter” with members of the California Jewish Caucus, state legislators and (from left) Simon Wiesenthal Center executive director Meyer H. May, Simon Wiesenthal Center founder and CEO Rabbi Marvin Hier (center) and Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Simon Wiesenthal Center associate dean and global social action director, Oct. 6, 2021. Credit: Courtesy.

California governor creates council for Holocaust and genocide education

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Wednesday the creation of the Governor’s Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education aimed to advance education on the Holocaust and other genocides in public schools, as well as...
Broward County Public Schools Department at Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Credit: YES Market Media/Shutterstock.

Florida makes strides in Holocaust education after new standards prioritize source material

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The Florida State Board of Education adopted new civics and Holocaust-education standards for Florida’s public schools in July, which had been pushed by the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis. The new social-studies standards spell out what...
A visitor looks at photographs of camp inmates at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial in Oswiecim, Poland. Credit: Desi H. Sitorus/Shutterstock.

Don’t confuse Holocaust education with the battle over critical race theory

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There is no more obvious sign that American education is in trouble than the fact that most state legislatures have become battlegrounds over how to teach history. The subject can be fraught with controversy...
The new Holocaust exhibit at Dubai's Crossroads of Civilizations Museum. Source: Crossroads of Civilizations Museum/Facebook.

UAE becomes first Arab Gulf country to open Holocaust-education exhibit

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In a continuing cultural relationship with Israel and the United Arab Emirates as part of the Abraham Accords, a museum in the United Arab Emirates debuted an exhibition about the Holocaust that also aims...

The future of Holocaust remembrance

Yom Hashoah is a day when Jews in their homeland and around the world remember their 6 million brothers and sisters who were so cruelly persecuted, hunted and murdered during the Holocaust. As we...
German SS lead blindfolded Polish prisoners to an execution site near Warsaw. Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Yad Vashem ‘deeply disturbed’ by Polish court verdict in Holocaust libel case

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Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center said on Thursday that it was “deeply disturbed” by the implications of a Polish court’s recent ruling in a libel case involving the alleged wartime actions of Edward...
Jason Isaacs. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

‘Harry Potter’ star narrates new Holocaust documentary for British students

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A new Holocaust documentary narrated by British actor and “Harry Potter” star Jason Isaacs debuted this week for students in the United Kingdom. Holocaust Learning UK commissioned the hour-long film “Out of the Darkness,” which features the testimony...