Holocaust education

"We have to march this year—it might be our last chance"

This year’s March of the Living may be the last chance for young participants to walk alongside Holocaust survivors and bear witness to their stories.

Holocaust survivor Nate Leipciger
Samir Khosla and his wife participate in the March of the Living last April.

'If not us, then who?': Indian CEO pushes Holocaust awareness at home

Education alone cannot preserve historical truth. When people learn the facts but reject their moral significance, knowledge turns into cynicism, leading to a worldview that acknowledges the Holocaust happened but insists that Jews exaggerate its scale to claim special-victim status.

Distortion is the new denial: 17% believe Holocaust deaths were exaggerated

Some 120 Holocaust survivors lit the fifth Hanukkah candle at the Western Wall, December 18, 2025.

Over 100 Holocaust survivors light fifth Hanukkah candle at Western Wall in ceremony of resilience


NYC principal turns down Holocaust survivor’s talk over his ‘messages around Israel and Palestine’

The principal of the Brooklyn middle school MS 447, Arin Rusch, said that she believed that hosting survivor Sami Steigman’s presentation was not “right” for the school.

Holocaust survivor Sami Steigmann is photographed in his home on December 9, 2024 in New York.

New York Historical exhibition immerses listeners in Holocaust testimony

The recordings on which this exhibition is based contain interviews with survivors, perpetrators, and bystanders of the Holocaust

In 1979, Claude Lanzmann (right) interviews Tadeusz Pankiewicz, a Polish pharmacist who aided Jews in the Krakow ghetto, for the film "Shoah."

What the US ambassador to Poland left out when he absolved Poland of Holocaust complicity - opinion

While Poles and Poland did not perpetrate the Holocaust, those Poles who assisted the Germans in doing so must not be whitewashed out of history.

Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich, second from right in blue tie, speaks next to Catholic clergymen at the Jedwabne commemoration ceremony, July 11, 2021.

Amid growing hate, Scarlett Johansson tells a Jewish story with urgency - report

Johansson, an outspoken advocate for the Jewish people and the State of Israel, discussed her directorial debut and upcoming Holocaust film in an interview with N12.

Actor Scarlett Johansson attends the "Jurassic World Rebirth" global premiere in London, Britain, June 17, 2025.

Former Columbia professor claims campus antisemitism focus fosters ‘Jewish victimization’

Professor Marianne Hirsch also argued the Holocaust must be taught alongside Gaza and the "Nakba," warning against “exceptionalism” in Holocaust memory.

Columbia University professor emerita Marianne Hirsch.

Grapevine: When Muslims and Jews find common ground

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

MOTTY REIFF (left) with Shay Shalom.

Proposed Wisconsin bill sets IHRA definition for antisemitic discrimination, crime enhancements

The measure defines antisemitism using the IHRA framework, including its 11 contemporary examples

CAM Director of State Engagement David Soffer speaking at a hearing of the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on State Affairs, at the State Capitol, in Madison, Wisconsin, Oct. 22, 2025.

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).

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

As Israel faces false genocide claims, the Balkans honor Dr. Zuroff’s decades-long mission to preserve Holocaust truth and confront historical revisionism.

 (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.

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

It has become common, too common, for Jewish and non-Jewish groups alike to use Holocaust comparisons when speaking about present-day affairs. Protesters liken immigration policies to Nazi Germany.

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

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

The Holocaust, an unprecedented event in human history, is often turned into a rhetorical tool to justify political positions, intensify public and international conflicts, and incite hatred.

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