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Holocaust education

Germany’s biggest Jewish educational, cultural center since Holocaust opens in Berlin
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Pears Jewish Campus will host 550 students in Chabad schools, along with movie theater, music studio, library, kosher deli and huge indoor basketball court and gym
Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal poses on the balcony of the curved building of the new Jewish educational and cultural complex in Berlin, Germany, June 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
June 23, 2023, 11:14 am
Germany’s biggest Jewish educational, cultural center since Holocaust opens in Berlin
Pears Jewish Campus will host 550 students in Chabad schools, along with movie theater, music studio, library, kosher deli and huge indoor basketball court and gym
By Kirsten Grieshaber
The Toronto Holocaust Museum is located at the United Jewish Appeal (UJA) Federation of Greater Toronto's Sherman Campus. (Courtesy/Toronto Holocaust Museum via JTA)
June 13, 2023, 11:26 pm
Toronto’s first Holocaust museum opens, looks to post-survivor era
Museum aims to educate the young, eschews graphic imagery and presents newly-unveiled personal artifacts
By Shira Li Bartov
A man wearing VR goggles is seen next to a screen depicting Holocaust survivor Inge Auerbacher at the Meta hub in Berlin on June 6, 2023. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)
June 7, 2023, 7:00 pm
In first, artificial intelligence used for Holocaust education
Visitors in Berlin can converse with an AI-generated avatar based on interviews held with a survivor of the Theresienstadt concentration camp
By Deborah Cole
US singer Montana Tucker arrives for the premiere of 'The Mother' at the Westwood Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles, California, on May 10, 2023. (Michael Tran/AFP)
June 3, 2023, 3:36 am
TikTok star Montana Tucker to emcee DC embassy event for Israel’s 75th anniversary
US influencer builds reputation for Jewish content following documentary series on family trip to Auschwitz for her millions of social media followers
By Gabe Friedman
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May 7, 2023, 10:15 am
Discovering 3D Judaism, Israel and the Holocaust at the University of Haifa
UHaifa International offers three interlinking master’s programs with a multi-level understanding of Judaism, the Holocaust and the State of Israel
By Galit Diamant
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen attends a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 25, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 19, 2023, 2:18 pm
FM Cohen to visit UK ahead of Netanyahu visit, before heading to Poland
Foreign minister to meet with British counterpart Cleverly for talks on trade, Iran; will then travel to Warsaw to sign agreement on Holocaust youth trips
By Lazar Berman
High school students participate in the March of the Living at Auschwitz in Poland, April 16, 2015. (Yossi Zeliger/ Flash90/ File)
March 8, 2023, 1:12 am
Israel, Poland reach agreement to resume school Holocaust trips after 3-year hiatus
Educational visits have not taken place due to disputes over curriculum, as Polish government attempts to minimize local complicity in genocide
By ToI Staff
Holocaust survivor and TikTok influencer Gidon Lev in his hotel room in Prague, January 2023. (Courtesy)
March 3, 2023, 5:59 am
A Holocaust survivor fought antisemitism on TikTok and now he’s a social media star
Gidon Lev and life partner Julie Gray go online to promote their memoir on Gidon’s life after growing up in the Theresienstadt ghetto, and suddenly find themselves educating youth
By Yaakov Schwartz
Lily Ebert visiting Auschwitz in this undated photo. (Courtesy)
February 1, 2023, 5:26 pm
King Charles honors 99-year-old survivor for her role in UK Holocaust education
Lily Ebert becomes a Member of the Order of the British Empire at Windsor Castle after being included in the New Year Honors list
By Jewish News staff
Ahmed al-Mansoori, director of the Crossroads of Civilizations Museum, shows visitors around the Holocaust Gallery, in Dubai on January 11, 2023. (Karim Sahib/ AFP)
January 30, 2023, 12:57 pm
As UAE embraces Holocaust studies, museum displays Torah scroll saved in genocide
Dubai’s Crossroads of Civilizations Museum founder says exhibition aims to fight Holocaust denial, remind visitors of ‘good days’ between Jews and Arabs in region
By ToI Staff and AFP
Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev holds his mother's yellow star at the former Theresienstadt ghetto-concentration camp, pictured on January 24, 2023. (Courtesy European Jewish Association)
January 27, 2023, 6:45 am
At concentration camp once used for Nazi propaganda, European Jews fight ‘fake news’
Ahead of the January 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an EJA delegation gathers at Theresienstadt to honor the victims and stop the spread of antisemitic misinformation
By Yaakov Schwartz
Illustrative: Nazi troops in front of Amsterdam's Bijenkorf square in 1941. (Public domain)
January 25, 2023, 4:31 pm
Nearly a quarter of young adults in Netherlands think Holocaust a myth, survey finds
‘Disturbing lack of awareness’: Poll says over half of Dutch don’t know Holocaust took place in their country or that 6 million Jews died
By Mike Corder
Members of the Auburn Tigers tour the Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem on August 3, 2022 (Courtesy/MFA)
January 24, 2023, 5:50 pm
Most Americans lack some basic knowledge about Holocaust — poll
AJC survey finds just 53% know 6 million Jews were killed, and more than one in three think Hitler came to power in a violent coup, highlighting gaps in Shoah education
By ToI Staff
Ahmed al-Mansoori, director of the "Crossroads of Civilizations Museum", shows visitors around the Holocaust Gallery at the facility in Dubai on January 11, 2023. (Karim SAHIB / AFP)
January 24, 2023, 6:16 am
UAE embrace of Holocaust education breaks barriers but faces old prejudices, denial
Guest book at Arab world’s only permanent exhibit on the mass murder of 6 million Jews replete with anti-Israel comments, illustrating uphill battle to change perceptions in region
By Hashem Osseiran
High school students participate in the March of the Living at Auschwitz in Poland, April 16, 2015. (Yossi Zeliger/ Flash90/ File)
January 1, 2023, 3:52 pm
Poland dispute over Holocaust school trips’ content resolved, says outgoing minister
Shasha-Biton tells successor Kisch that security issues will be fixed within days, students to resume annual memorial trips; both trade barbs over matriculation exam changes
By ToI Staff
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