In what areas of the world does the Holocaust form part of classroom teaching?
They formed Europe's biggest Jewish community - but most of them were wiped out in the Holocaust in World War II.
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The MFA and other US museums are carrying out a promise they made in June 1998 to check the histories of paintings acquired during the Holocaust and World War II.
"His death is a call to intensify efforts for educating and transmitting the history of the Holocaust around the world".
Brody, who portrayed Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman in "The Pianist, " the true story of a musician in a Warsaw ripped apart by World War II and the Holocaust, beat competition including Jack Nicholson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Michael Caine and Nicolas Cage.
He has profiled a variety of personalities from astronauts to prime ministers, holocaust survivors and the world's tallest man.
Indeed, many of the divisions in world Jewry today originate in this post-Holocaust policy divide.
On Sunday night, the museum presented its highest honor to World War II veterans who helped end the Holocaust.
The second world war saw mass murder (in the Holocaust, notably) or wilful killing (the nuclear strike on Hiroshima, the firebombing of Dresden, the siege of Stalingrad) of tens of millions of non-combatants.
Born in 1928 and raised in Brooklyn by Jewish-Polish immigrant parents, Sendak said his own life had been clouded by the Holocaust and that the events of World War II were the root of his raw and honest artistic style.
Time and again he has drawn parallels between the Iranian nuclear crisis and the world's failure to prevent WWII and the Holocaust while it still had the chance.
It is with great pleasure that we now welcome 2013 with new original projects on Underwater Cultural Heritage, Holocaust Education and the 20 years of World Press Freedom Day, as well as translations into different languages of exciting titles.
It is estimated that there were some 800, 000 Jews living in Hungary before World War II but only a quarter of them survived the Holocaust.
Edelman was one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, "the largest, symbolically most important Jewish uprising" against the Nazis during World War II, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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He is one of the most persuasive voices appealing for a better understanding about the Holocaust and for more tolerance among the races of Europe and the world.
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Furthermore, the study will explore the contents of textbooks in several regions of the world in order to analyse in a comparative perspective the different representations of the Holocaust and how it is actually taught to pupils and students.
And he announced he would award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, posthumously to Jan Karski, an officer in the Polish underground during World War II, who provided one of the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust.
Nearly 1, 000 survivors and World War II vets joined with former President Bill Clinton and Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust activist Elie Wiesel to mark the museum's 20th anniversary.
In 1962, World War II Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel for his role in the Nazi Holocaust.
The government of Israel and UNESCO will sign an agreement to reinforce their cooperation in developing and promoting Holocaust education and combating denial of the mass murder of Jews and other groups in World War II.
Over the next two and a half years, my tiny office on the second floor of our white stucco house at 1 Oulad Fares Street became the world headquarters of a far-flung effort to find Arabs who had saved Jews during the Holocaust.
The debate underscores not only the complexities of Holocaust history but also the difficulty countries can face reconciling the heroic deeds of an individual during World War II with the record of a nation as a whole.
Thanks to the cooperation of numerous research centres and experts, as well as the support of ministries of education throughout the world, it will draw on data from countries in which no or little information about representations of the Holocaust has previously been made available.
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