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32% of Millennials and 27% of all adults surveyed said they did not know Anne Frank died in a concentration camp.

Kristallnacht

/PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), in commemoration of Kristallnacht, announces the relaunch...

Sara Weinberger’s May 17 column titled: “‘Never again.’ Could the unthinkable happen?” poignantly reminds us that April 27 is the Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day. My mind inadequately comprehends the meaning of the death of her 42 family members. My...

The evening of April 27 marked the beginning of Yom Hashoah, the day set aside to remember those who were slaughtered in the Holocaust. I lit a candle in memory of my 42 family members murdered by the Nazis. I do this each year to remember, to mourn,...

Columnist offers insight into the ways ban on Maus fails history, Americas children.

Both specials are hosted by three-time Emmy-Award-winning actress Julianna Margulies. Each features interviews with Holocaust survivors as they talk with students from school districts in Texas that don't teach Holocaust history.

Laurie Cardoza-Moore: Get Holocaust education into schools, anti-Semitism out   Laurie Cardoza-Moore In 1994 the state legislature mandated that Holocaust education must be taught in Florida public schools. At that time, the Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center was one of 27 members of the Florida Department of Educations Task Force on Holocaust Education. Under the leadership of Tess Wise, founder of the Center, they provided educational resources to a 13-county area, which included...

Share this article Share this article #ItStartedWithWords. Before local anti-Jewish laws were enacted, before neighborhood shops and synagogues were destroyed, and before Jews were forced into ghettos, cattle cars, and camps, words were used to stoke the fires of hate. #ItStartedWithWords is a digital, Holocaust education campaign posting weekly videos of survivors from around the world reflecting on those moments that led up to the Holocaust – a period of time when they could not have pred...

The state capitol of Arkansas. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. JNS.org – Lawmakers in Arkansas have introduced a bill that would mandate Holocaust education to be taught in all public schools starting with the 2021-22 school year. The move comes a few months after a report by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany found that the state ranked last in Holocaust knowledge. According to U.S. Millennial Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Survey, only 17 percent of millennials and Gen Z ...