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Columnist offers insight into the ways ban on 'Maus' fails history, America's 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 Education's 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 instructional materials, best practices and professional development. According to the Center's we...

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 predicted the ease with which their long-time neighbors, teachers, classmates, and colleagues would turn...

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 residents in Arkansas meet “Holocaust knowledge criteria,” defined as “definitely” having h...