Holocaust education

European Commission launches Project NERON to focus on antisemitism, fostering Jewish life

The Network for European Research on Jewish Life and Antisemitism (NERON) project is aimed at supporting research on antisemitism and contemporary Jewish life.

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks to the press on the 21st sanctions package against Russia in Brussels, Belgium, June 9, 2026.
One school pupil, Teaghan Murtagh, wrote a letter to the Lexington Observer about Cole's order for her not to wear a T-shirt with the words "Save the bees. Plant more trees. Clean the seas. Punch Nazis."

Boston principal apologizes to Muslim, Arab students who felt 'unsafe' after Holocaust lesson

Jewish groups are condemning a Boston middle school principal after he apologized in an email for the impact of a mandatory Holocaust lesson on some students.

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People view the exhibits at Yad Vashem on April 13, 2026.

Head of Anne Frank Educational Center questions Yad Vashem's Germany expansion, drawing backlash

The Israeli-born educator warned that Yad Vashem's planned branches in Germany could face controversy over the institution's ties to the Israeli government.

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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.

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.

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Hungarian textbooks portray Jews positively, contain unbiased coverage of Holocaust - IMPACT-se

IMPACT-se released new research that found that Hungarian school textbooks include informative depictions of Judaism and empathetic, deep coverage of the Holocaust.

JANUARY 8, 2026ByMATHILDA HELLER
Rabbi Tamas Vero plays the Jewish shofar during the annual "March of the Living" to commemorate victims of the Holocaust, in Budapest, Hungary, May 5, 2024

'World, Open Your Eyes'

Holocaust Survivors Refuse to Be Silenced. This Year They Will March on the March of the Living Against Antisemitism

JANUARY 8, 2026ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Auschwitz, Poland

Eva Schloss, Auschwitz survivor and founder of Anne Frank Trust UK, dies at 96

"Her legacy will continue to guide and empower young people to build a world free from hatred and discrimination," Trust chief executive Dan Green said.

JANUARY 5, 2026ByMICHAEL STARR
Anne Frank's friend and step-sister Eva Schloss celebrates her 90th birthday in London.

"We have to march this year—it might be our last chance"

This year’s March of the Living may be the last chance for young participants to walk alongside Holocaust survivors and bear witness to their stories.

JANUARY 1, 2026ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, IN COLLABORATION WITH MOTL
Holocaust survivor Nate Leipciger

'If not us, then who?': Indian CEO pushes Holocaust awareness at home - interview

Meet the Indian business leader pushing for Holocaust awareness in his country of nearly 1.5 billion people.

DECEMBER 30, 2025ByRUTH MARKS EGLASH
Samir Khosla and his wife participate in the March of the Living last April.

Distortion is the new denial: 17% believe Holocaust deaths were exaggerated

How minimization and distortion of the Holocaust are eroding memory and fueling antisemitism

DECEMBER 30, 2025ByMARINA ROSENBERG
Education alone cannot preserve historical truth. When people learn the facts but reject their moral significance, knowledge turns into cynicism, leading to a worldview that acknowledges the Holocaust happened but insists that Jews exaggerate its scale to claim special-victim status.

Over 100 Holocaust survivors light fifth Hanukkah candle at Western Wall in ceremony of resilience

Claims Conference and Western Wall Heritage Foundation hosted the ninth annual event honoring survivors, October 7 victims, and the fight against rising antisemitism.

DECEMBER 19, 2025BySHIR PERETS
Some 120 Holocaust survivors lit the fifth Hanukkah candle at the Western Wall, December 18, 2025.

NYC principal turns down Holocaust survivor’s talk over his ‘messages around Israel and Palestine’

The principal of the Brooklyn middle school MS 447, Arin Rusch, said that she believed that hosting survivor Sami Steigman’s presentation was not “right” for the school.

DECEMBER 4, 2025ByGRACE GILSON/JTA
Holocaust survivor Sami Steigmann is photographed in his home on December 9, 2024 in New York.

New York Historical exhibition immerses listeners in Holocaust testimony

The recordings on which this exhibition is based contain interviews with survivors, perpetrators, and bystanders of the Holocaust

DECEMBER 4, 2025ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA
In 1979, Claude Lanzmann (right) interviews Tadeusz Pankiewicz, a Polish pharmacist who aided Jews in the Krakow ghetto, for the film "Shoah."

What the US ambassador to Poland left out when he absolved Poland of Holocaust complicity - opinion

While Poles and Poland did not perpetrate the Holocaust, those Poles who assisted the Germans in doing so must not be whitewashed out of history.

NOVEMBER 22, 2025ByMENACHEM Z. ROSENSAFT/JTA
Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich, second from right in blue tie, speaks next to Catholic clergymen at the Jedwabne commemoration ceremony, July 11, 2021.