Holocaust education

Remembering the fallen: These are the 1,032 previously unidentified Babyn Yar Massacre victims

Over 1,000 previously unnamed victims of the 1941 Babyn Yar massacre have been identified, bringing long-overdue remembrance to the forgotten.

Natan Sharansky at the symbolic synagogue founded by the Memorial Center in Babyn Yar 2023 (BYHMC).
 (Illustrative) EFRAIM ZUROFF, former director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel Office, watches a procession commemorating the Latvian Waffen SS unit, also known as the Legionnaires, in Riga in 2010.

While the world distorts, the Balkans remember: Dr. Zuroff’s legacy honored - opinion

 A SIGN on a lawn in Dearborn, Michigan, reads: ‘End the genocide in Gaza.’

Misusing Holocaust memory: It harms the lessons we need most - opinion

THE WRITER speaks at an event marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day last January at the Ghetto Fighters’ House.

Challenges of Holocaust education at generational crossroads with survivors dwindling - opinion


Holocaust education needed to combat distortion of history - opinion

The Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum convene educators, researchers, and educational entrepreneurs from Holocaust museums and heritage sites, in Oswiecim.

University Presidents Mission, Auschwitz - Birkenau on the 2025 March of the Living.

Israel National Team balances remembrance and readiness ahead of EuroBasket tip-off

Ahead of their EuroBasket debut, Israel’s national basketball team visited Auschwitz and Birkenau, reflecting on history and finding unity as they prepare to face Iceland.

 ISRAEL PLAYERS Guy Palatin (left) and Deni Avdija visit concentration camps in Poland ahead of Thursday’s EuroBasket opener vs Iceland.

Congressional Education c'mtee investigating NEA for 'antisemitic positions'

The US Committee on Education and Workforce is investigating the National Education Association over antisemitism concerns linked to its 2025 handbook and policies on Israel and Palestine.

House Education Committee chair Tim Walberg, pictured in 2021.

'Spat on, called a murderer': Israeli rabbi recounts antisemitism during tour in Poland - interview

In Warsaw, Ostroff was standing next to a marketplace when a 70-year-old woman walked up, spat on him, and then walked away.

 YOUTH TAKE part in The March of the Living at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland on Holocaust Remembrance Day last year. ‘As a mayor, an Israeli, a Jew, and someone who has experienced the profound heartbreak of the past year and a half, I travel there with a heavy heart but also a deep sense of purpose.

Holocaust distortion and preserving the accurate narrative in Eastern Europe - opinion

Many countries refuse to acknowledge the major role their citizens played in the mass murder of their Jewish inhabitants during the Holocaust.

ROMANIAN PRESIDENT Nicusor Dan is challenging a recently passed parliamentary law designed to enhance the effectiveness and accessibility of efforts to combat antisemitism, the writers point out.

Edward R. Murrow, the first NYC public High School to bring ‘Names, Not Numbers’, Holocaust program

“What started as an idea became something much bigger and more powerful than we expected,” he said. “This program is about learning from the past to make the world better.”

 Holocaust survivor Ernie Brod speaks to students at Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn as part of the Names, Not Numbers Holocaust education program.

Helena Weinrauch, Holocaust survivor and ‘dancing angel,’ dies at 100

Weinrauch’s story of survival — and how she discovered, at 88, the joy of ballroom dancing — was the subject of a 2015 documentary, “Fascination: Helena’s Story.”

 Holocaust survivor Helena Weinstock Weinrauch, who wore the same hand-knit sweater to the first Passover seder every year for the past 75 years, has died at 100.

What preserves the memory of the Holocaust among Jews is hope, and looking to the future

The point was made by several speakers that there cannot be memory without knowledge, and that lack of knowledge leads to difficulties in countering Holocaust denial and distortion.

 Visitors seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on May 2, 2024, ahead of Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Romanian right-wing candidate who downplayed Holocaust loses presidential election

In Romania, which is home to around 12,000 Jews, the lead-up to the election saw a resurgence in symbolism associated with the Iron Guard, a Romanian antisemitic militant movement during the 1930s.

 George Simion, left, during the live electoral debate with Pro-European independent presidential candidate and Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan in Bucharest, Romania, on May 8, 2025.

The growing need for Holocaust education, as Trump's actions won't be enough - opinion

A 2020 Claims Conference survey found that 63% of US millennials and Gen Z did not know that six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.

PROTESTERS CALL for the release of Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil in New York City, last month. On campuses like Columbia and in all levels of education, better Holocaust education is needed, says the writer.

Trump fires Doug Emhoff from Holocaust Memorial Council

“Today, I was informed of my removal from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council,” Emhoff said in a statement to the NYT. “Holocaust remembrance and education should never be politicized.

 Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff claps as Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Phoenix Awards dinner at Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, US, September 14, 2024.