Holocaust education

What this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day revealed about Jewish fear

Holocaust remembrance carries meaning when it shapes how societies govern, educate, regulate, and protect. Its purpose is not only to honor the past, but to safeguard living communities.

Voice of the People CEO Shirel Dagan-Levy
US Vice President JD Vance speaks at Royalston Square in Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 22, 2026.

Just say ‘Jew’: JD Vance’s Holocaust post shows why naming Jews and Nazis still matters -editorial

Mark Wilf and his family outside of Auschwitz during March of the Living.

Jewish unity is the true lesson of Holocaust remembrance - opinion

 The main entrance to the Vilnius Ghetto in Lithuania during World War II.

Holocaust education: Why telling Lithuania’s Jewish story matters more than ever - opinion


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.

'Never again means now': Trump calls on US to remember victims of the Holocaust

President Trump noted that antisemitism in the US is at a record high, and remarked on his administration's efforts to curb it.

 U.S. President Donald Trump attends a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 10, 2025.