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IHRA Recommendations for Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust

Each IHRA Member Country is committed to encouraging the study of the Holocaust in all its dimensions. However, teaching about this complex and sensitive topic appropriately – and adapting it to the...

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Ensuring the Memory of Holocaust for our Future Generations

Date: 26 January 2023
 
  
 
 The official Holocaust commemoration in Bern, the capital of Switzerland.
 
 The event is organized by the Embassy of Sweden (IHRA Chair), the Embassy of Israel and the...

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Exhibition Days Beyond Time

Date: 27 January 2023
 
 Place: D10 Art Space
 
 "Days Beyond Time" is a multidisciplinary art exhibition by young Israeli artists, inspired by the testimonies of survivors of the Theresienstadt...

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United Nations Outreach Program on the Holocaust -Home and Belonging

Date: 27 January 2023
 
 Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
 
 Place: Palais des Nations, Geneva
 
 The United Nations in Geneva and its partners will mark the International Day of Commemoration in memory of...

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Days Beyond Time: Artist meets testimony

Date: 25 January 2023 Place: Geneva, Switzerland Opening of a multimedia exhibition of young Israeli artists, inspired by testimonies of the survivors of Theresienstadt.

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How to Teach about the Holocaust

The Recommendations aim to deepen the understanding of the Holocaust by asking crucial questions concerning the historical context of the Holocaust, its scope and scale and why and how it happened....

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What to Teach about the Holocaust

The Recommendations aim to deepen the understanding of the Holocaust by asking crucial questions concerning the historical context of the Holocaust, its scope and scale and why and how it happened...

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Why Teach About the Holocaust

Considering how best to make any examination of the Holocaust meaningful and relevant for learners in their national contexts is essential. This section is meant to help policymakers, school...

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Summary: Why, What, and How to Teach about the Holocaust

The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and murder of Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. A continent-wide genocide, it destroyed not only...

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Guidelines for Identifying Relevant Documentation for Holocaust Research, Education and Remembrance

For decades, a significant amount of the documentation bearing on the Holocaust and its historical context has been scattered, endangered and in many cases made inaccessible. The Nazis, their allies...

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