The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) has released a set of guidelines designed to help public schools across the state develop curricula to teach the Holocaust. The 13-page document, titled Required Instruction of the Holocaust and Other Cases of Genocide: … Read More
Sonia Milrod said she wouldn’t be here – meaning alive – were it not for the courage of a wartime Japanese diplomat named Chiune Sugihara. Likewise, she wouldn’t be here – meaning America – if post-war immigration laws mirrored today’s … Read More
Each year’s Yom HaShoah community-wide Holocaust commemoration program is special in its own way. While each inspires awe and reverence, this year’s program provided an educational component as well that made the familiar feel new again. This year’s Jewish Community … Read More
“A million-and-a-half children all just disappeared. And I carry that around whenever I speak,” Fred Gross told a room of nearly 150 people at the Louisville Free Public Library on Thursday, February 4. Gross was describing his experience as a … Read More
Dan Penner was among 10 people nationwide selected to join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Regional Education Corps this year. Corps members will work in tandem with the Museum’s Levine Institute for Holocaust Education to bring a wide variety … Read More
Each Holocaust survivor’s story is unique and each has found a way to live with the memories. Some have been sharing their experiences for years, hoping that by doing so they can promote tolerance and understanding. Others, who have been … Read More
[by Shiela Steinman Wallace] Terezin was a Nazi concentration camp. Yet it was different from the other camps. It was the place where the Nazis sent artists and musicians. Some children were permitted to live there, and when the Red … Read More