The Holocaust is a fact. Here are resources for educators.
US Holocaust Museum
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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum inspires citizens and leaders to confront antisemitism and hatred, #PreventGenocide, and promote human dignity.
- Vladimir Putin has repeatedly employed antisemitic lies and distorted the Holocaust to justify his brutal invasion of Ukraine. We condemn his recent remarks denigrating Ukrainian President Zelensky and the Jewish people.
- 1/ Maus has played a vital role in educating about the Holocaust through sharing detailed and personal experiences of victims and survivors. On the eve of International #HolocaustRemembranceDay, it is more important than ever for students to learn this history.
- 1/2 To all our new followers, it has never been more important to learn about the Holocaust. Get the facts, learn the history, and speak out against Holocaust denial, antisemitism and hate.
- Karl Gorath was just 26 when his jealous lover denounced him as a gay man. He spent years in the concentration camp system until he was liberated from Auschwitz in 1945. But after liberation, he faced another set of difficulties. 1/5
- The Holocaust—the murder of six million Jews—is one of the most well documented crimes in history, made possible by antisemitic conspiracy theories. Invoking those dangerous theories and calling for the mass murder of Jews is an outrage.
- Ten-year-old Thomas Buergenthal managed to avoid being sent to the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau, though most children deported there were murdered upon arrival. He later survived a death march. Thomas was one of the very few Jewish children under 15 to survive Auschwitz.
- As they exited the rail car at the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in 1944, Beno Helmer was surrounded by his family for the last time. After the war, he searched for them town by town. On #NewYearsDay 1947, he reunited with his sister. She recognized him and then fainted.
- 1/2 Our Museum is the national memorial to the six million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. It is deeply offensive to survivors and the memory of the victims to exploit Holocaust history.
- Opposing calls for genocide against Jews shouldn’t be difficult or controversial.
- Exploiting the Museum and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to sanitize “globalize the intifada” is outrageous and especially offensive to survivors. Since 1987 Jews have been attacked and murdered under its banner. All leaders must condemn its use and the abuse of history.
- #OTD in 1938, the first Kindertransport arrived in Great Britain. These rescue missions would save thousands of mostly Jewish children from an uncertain fate in Nazi Germany. Seven-year-old Dorrith Oppenheim arrived in July 1939. Both her parents were likely killed at Auschwitz.
- Weaponizing the Holocaust is always wrong and especially when it comes from a head of state. That Brazilian President Lula did so to promote a false, antisemitic claim is outrageous and should be condemned.
- The loss of life in Ukraine today is our primary concern. We are also outraged at the damage inflicted on the Babyn Yar memorial by Russia’s attack today. #BabynYar was the site of one of the largest mass shootings during the Holocaust. It is sacred ground. Learn more.
