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Holocaust Education: United States
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Each semester the Institute for Holocaust Education hosts a lecture series, which include experts in Holocaust studies and education from local, state, regional, and national institutions. Check back for Spring 2007 lecture announcements.
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The Holland and Knight Rememberance Project is an annual writing contest for high school students, which supports Holocaust education. The project, sponsored by the Holland & Knight Charitable Foundations, Inc., serves as a living memorial to the millions of innocent victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to the memory of the six millions Jews who were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators as a central act of state during World War II and to the memory of an additional five million persons who perished as a result of Nazi persecution, including Roma and Sinti, Poles, Slavs, Soviet prisoners of war, political and religios dissidents, homosexuals, and the mentally and physically disabled.
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The conference will bring to campus top scholars in the fields of Holocaust education and Catholic-Jewish relations as well as experienced Holocaust educators from Catholic schools from across the United States. Highlights include:
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Holocaust education which has been the focus of the press and various alarmed emails. It features in the section addressing why teachers avoid teaching certain subjects and states: ‘… a history department in a northern city recently avoided selecting the Holocaust as a topic for GCSE coursework for fear of confronting anti-Semitic (sic) sentiment and Holocaust denial among some Muslim pupils’.
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