Holocaust education

Holocaust survivor Albrecht Weinberg, who moved back to Germany in his 80's, dies aged 101

Weinberg, who was born in Rhauderfehn in 1925, passed away in the town of Leer, not far from his birthplace in northwest Germany.

Holocaust survivor Albrecht Weinberg, 99, poses in inside his old classroom at the memorial at the former Jewish School before a discussion with foreign journalists a week before the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on January 20, 2025 in Leer, Germany.
A Stolperstein or a 'stumbling stone' with the words, "here lived Margot Bendheim, born 1921, deported 1944 - Theresienstadt, survived" engraved in memory of Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlaender, is embedded in front of the house where she once lived, after she died on May 9 at the age of 103.

Berlin Holocaust memorial vandalized in latest antisemitic vandalism incident

Chef Alon Shaya uses food and memory to preserve Holocaust stories for a new generation.

When food becomes memory: Alon Shaya's culinary tribute to Holocaust survivors

Yad Vashem’s ‘Living Memory’ exhibition creates a time-travel experience through art.

Inside Yad Vashem's 'Living Memory': A window to victims' souls


Jewish leader bashes former PM's denial of Poland's Holocaust role

"I say to the former Prime Minister: You cannot control the past. You must live with it, and learn from it. Go and learn,” Menachem Margolin of the European Jewish Association said.

  Auschwitz concentration camp, operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during the Holocaust.

Education is the silver bullet for combatting antisemitism - opinion

The International Conference is a recognition that Holocaust education must adapt to the changing dynamics of our world

 THE WRITER addresses the International Conference on Holocaust Education at Yad Vashem, this week.

BBC re-releases archived interview with Otto Frank on decision to publish Anne Frank’s diary

Otto Frank told the BBC of his difficulty in both reading the diary and making the decision to publish it.

 ORIGINAL, DIARY of Anne Frank, 1942.

Auschwitz display of 3,000 murdered children's shoes returns after undergoing preservation process

The shoes underwent a preservation process that took over a year of work at the Auschwitz Museum Conservation Laboratories.

 Staff examining shoes at Auschwitz-Birkenau Holocaust memorial

English soccer fans and officials visit Holocaust sites in Germany

The initiative “Football and Remembrance” launched ahead of the tournament, and sought to familiarize UEFA EURO 2024 attendees with the history of the Holocaust.

A memorial stone is pictured at the former Bergen-Belsen Nazi death camp

Ensuring 'dignity': Germany increases funds for Holocaust survivors by $114m

The Claims Conference will increase funding for Holocaust survivors by $114 million, enhancing social services and education, ensuring dignified living and combating Holocaust denial.

 From right to left: Greg Schneider, Executive Vice President of the Claims Conference Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat, Special Negotiator for the Claims Conference Negotiations Delegation Ambassador Colette Avital

European Union to co-sponsor new immersive Yad Vashem exhibit

The new project aims to resurrect Jewish communities destroyed during the Holocaust, bringing forward surviving testimonies in immersive detail with the use of new technologies. 

 European Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement Olivér Várhelyi, and Yad Vashem chairman, Danny Dannon, at Yad Vashem, May 28, 2024.

Advocating for Middle East peace by educating on the Holocaust - opinion

Today, I am traveling comfortably on a train, not to my death surrounded by other desperate Jews, but working toward peace and prosperity, surrounded by Muslim and Arab allies who share this dream.

 MEMBERS OF the Sharaka delegation stand near the entrance to Birkenau at the annual March of the Living on Holocaust Remembrance Day, last week.

The state of Holocaust education is dire, and the situation is failing survivors - opinion

The rot goes much deeper and has spread among the highly educated who don’t dispute that the Holocaust happened – and even commemorate it.

 ‘THE WORLD Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’; Holocaust education, which includes books like this one, is failing survivors, says the writer.

Holocaust researchers use AI to search for unnamed victims

The technology used can quickly and efficiently process testimonies and identify names.

 Visitors tour an exhibition ahead of Israel's national Holocaust memorial day, at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem