How to help students grasp the complexity of the Holocaust
Two years ago, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we released the disturbing results of the Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Study in Canada.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day to be marked in Ottawa
Seventy-six years ago, on Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet troops entered Auschwitz concentration camp, liberating some 7,600 emaciated prisoners. In the five years of the infamous camp’s existence, between 1.1 million and 1.5 million people, mostly Jews, had been murdered there.
From Yoni’s Desk: The muddled state of Holocaust education
In this week’s column, CJN editor Yoni Goldstein writes about the importance of Holocaust education.
They are Holocaust heroes not survivors
Speakers at an event for International Holocaust Remembrance Day say that we should refer to Holocaust survivors as heroes.
Vaughan adopts Holocaust Memorial Day and IHRA definition
The City of Vaughan, home to one of the largest Jewish populations in the country, has proclaimed Jan. 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day and adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism.
Holocaust survivors’ testimony will live on as holograms
Highlights from the International Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa yesterday.
TDSB grade six students to be versed in Hana’s Suitcase
Despite the rotating teachers’ strikes at the Toronto District School Board, all 17,000 students in Grade 6 at TDSB schools will still receive a copy of Hana’s Suitcase, the true story of Hana Brady, a young Jewish girl from Czechoslovakia who was murdered at Auschwitz.
City of Richmond, B.C., adopts Holocaust Remembrance Day
This week, January 27 was proclaimed Holocaust Remembrance Day in the City of Richmond, B.C.
