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Book on rescuers, liberators, survivors of World War II gets new tech for new...

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To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II and the liberation of Europe from Nazi Germany on May 8—International March of the Living—a book about the era just got an...
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) speaks at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr.

Sen. Mike Lee places hold on Never Again Education Act

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Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) has placed a hold on the Never Again Education Act, which seeks to expand Holocaust education in the United States. If enacted, it would expand the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s (USHMM) education programming...
A view of an virtual session between genocide survivors and participants with the United Kingdom’s National Holocaust Centre and Museum. Source: United Kingdom’s National Holocaust Centre and Museum via Facebook.

Online project in Britain sets up learning between students and Holocaust survivors

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The United Kingdom’s National Holocaust Centre and Museum has launched an online program that allows schoolchildren at home during the coronavirus pandemic to ask questions to Holocaust survivors. Connecting the survivors, many of whom are...
The “Arbeit Macht Frei” gate at Auschwitz with the bitter irony of the German words: “Work Will Set You Free.” Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Minnesota high-schoolers apologize for TikTok video mocking Auschwitz

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Two high school students in Minnesota apologized for posting a clip on the popular video-sharing app that pokes fun at Jews who were sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. In the TikTok video titled “Me...
Leah Hason, a resident of northern Israel, delivers testimony of her experiences as a Holocaust survivor, April 20-21, 2020. Credit: The Jewish Agency for Israel.

Israeli Holocaust survivor’s testimony to be aired via Facebook live

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While official in-person ceremonies are canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Jewish Agency for Israel will host two virtual Yom Hashoah events, bringing Jews around the world together to hear from Holocaust survivor...
Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in Lower Manhattan, New York. Credit: New York City Tourism Bureau.

Museum of Jewish Heritage offers free online educational resources for those at home

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New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is offering several online resources for parents, teachers and students as the museum remains temporarily closed in accordance with COVID-19 social-distancing restrictions. For parents...
March of the Living participants. Photo by Yossi Zeliger.

March of the Living program in Poland postponed due to coronavirus

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March of the Living, the largest annual international Holocaust-education program that takes groups to the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland and then Israel, will not take place in this month because of concerns related...
The newly certified Holocaust educators spent a week training at Israel’s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, representing the first time that Yad Vashem has gathered a group of campus leaders for an intensive training, February 2020. Credit: Yad Vashem.

Chabad on Campus emissaries train at Yad Vashem to be Holocaust educators

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Some 30 campus Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries concluded an eight-day training program at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, learning cutting-edge, relevant and effective tools that will allow them to teach about the Holocaust and the growing problem...
One of the most famous pictures of Jews being rounded up by Nazi Germans during the Holocaust, this from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

US House passes Never Again Education Act on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commemorates the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed on Monday the Never Again Education Act, a bill that seeks to...
One of the most famous pictures of Jews being rounded up by Nazi Germans during the Holocaust, this from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Pew study: Most Americans know dates of Holocaust, but not number of Jews killed

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Less than half of Americans, some 45 percent,  know that 6 million Jews perished in the Holocaust, while 29 percent weren’t sure or had no answer, according to a Pew Research Center study released on...