Holocaust education

Teen wearing 'Free Palestine' T-shirt sparks confrontation at Mauthausen concentration camp

Museum administration intervened and brought the situation under control before the police arrived.

Visitor wearing a white t-shirt featuring a 'Free Palestine' slogan and an illustration allegedly depicting Fatah militant Dalal Mughrabi at Mauthausen concentration.
Cards with an Israeli flag with a swastika scattered in and around Justice Solberg's house on June 3, 2026.

CAM weekly antisemitism report – Holocaust inversion and antisemitic conspiracies spreading online

Students from 14 colleges came together through the 2026 Two Museums Program

Two museums, one mission: Preparing young leaders to confront antisemitism and racism

In the decades after the Holocaust, the shame of images of Auschwitz played a significant role in the easing of direct threats on Jews, including acts of violence.

Global support for IHRA antisemitism definition grew in 2025


Holocaust property restoration: Not enough progress made, report finds

Blinken's address noted the countless works of art and cultural property stolen by Nazis which still have not been returned to their owners. 

Tourists stand near a disputed Wassily Kandinsky painting at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, July 10, 2019.

A glimpse of domestic Nazi life at Auschwitz

The idea of looking at the lives of those feeding off the concentration camp is good, but it’s unpleasant to watch these people for the entire running time, and it’s unpleasantness with no payoff.

 SCENES FROM The 'Zone of Interest'

Holocaust education bill fails in Washington State after debate over Jewish refugees, and Gaza war

Republicans felt that the latest version of the bill contained implied references to Gaza Palestinians’ experience during the war.

 The Washington State Capitol legislative building in Olympia, Washington, September 23, 2013.

Hillary Clinton: Youth 'woefully uninformed' on Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Clinton described an environment at the university where students who are highly engaged on global issues only regularly protest Israel, despite not knowing the history.  

 Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., September 19, 2022.

Letters to the Editor, February 14, 2024: Somewhat abstract

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters

Nina Gottlieb, Holocaust survivor who told her story in an award-winning documentary, dies at 91

In December, Gottlieb was invited to celebrate Hanukkah with Kamala Harris at the vice president’s residence in Washington, DC.

 Nina Gottlieb speaks in an interview, 2023.

Lawrence Langer, renowned scholar of Holocaust testimony, dies at 94

Langer died January 29 at a hospice near his home in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

 Lawrence Langer's “Holocaust Testimonies,” published in 1991, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

Holocaust survivors once again face terror following Oct. 7 - opinion

On October 7, memories of the past resurged as Never Again. Since then Holocaust survivors once again face terror. They live with existential fear.

 THE WRITER provides a consultation to a Holocaust survivor.

Holocaust education in Israeli high schools becomes non-mandatory following Oct. 7

The Education Ministry clarified that this decision would currently only be valid for the 2024 school year if it were to come to fruition.

 High school students take their mathematics matriculation examination (Bagrut), in at a high school in Rishon Lezion, on May 20, 2019.

Protests for new elections, release of hostages held in cities across Israel

Families of the hostages were joined in their weekly mass rally by the descendants of Holocaust survivors and leaders in Israeli society as the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

 PRIMAL SCREAM at a protest outside the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem, calling for the release of the hostages.