Former President Mary McAleese commemorates child victims of the Holocaust
A touching tribute Former President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, officially launched the Holocaust Education Ireland’s Crocus Project today, by planting yellow crocus bulbs in her garden at home in Roscommon with the help of local schoolchildren. The flowers, recalling the yellow Stars of David Jews were forced to wear under Nazi rule, will bloom around […]
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Irish Holocaust victims commemorated at unveiling of Stolpersteine stones
The unveiling took place today in Dublin. Six Stolpersteine ‘stumbling stones’ were unveiled by Holocaust Education Ireland and Dublin City Council today to remember each of the Irish citizens who were victims of the Holocaust. The unveiling took place at a commemorative event at St. Catherine’s National School in Dublin 8. Speaking at the event, […]
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Holocaust survivor of 4 Nazi camps killed in Russian bombing of his Ukrainian home
Devastating. A 96-year-old man who survived four Nazi concentration camps was killed on Friday when Russian forces bombed his Ukrainian apartment building. Boris Romantschenko, who lived through the Holocaust and spent years of his life working with survivors, died in Russia’s attacks on the city of Kharkiv when his apartment building was shelled. The Buchenwald […]
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Texas schools told to balance Holocaust books with “opposing” views
“How do you oppose the Holocaust?” An administrator for a school district in Texas told teachers that books about the Holocaust should be balanced with “opposing” viewpoints. An audio recording obtained by NBC News features Carroll Independent School District’s executive director of curriculum and instruction, Gina Peddy, telling teachers that if they keep books about […]
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