The push to teach Holocaust history in schools

Brazil Holocaust Memorial — A youth looks at photos on an interactive table displaying the photos and stories of the thousands of people who took refuge in Brazil during the Holocaust at the Holocaust Victims Memorial on the first day it opened to the public in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023.

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The push to teach Holocaust history in schools

Most states in the U.S. don’t require the story of the Holocaust to be taught in schools. One local educator writes in the Chicago Sun-Times that it’s time to mobilize so that schoolchildren learn about the genocide, especially with hate crimes against Jewish people on the rise in recent years. Reset checks in the leader of a local non-profit that’s fighting anti-semitism. GUEST: Luke Berryman, founder and CEO of The Ninth Candle

A youth looks at photos on an interactive table displaying the photos and stories of the thousands of people who took refuge in Brazil during the Holocaust at the Holocaust Victims Memorial on the first day it opened to the public in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023.

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By Micah Yason

Most states in the U.S. don’t require the story of the Holocaust to be taught in schools. One local educator writes in the Chicago Sun-Times that it’s time to mobilize so that schoolchildren learn about the genocide, especially with hate crimes against Jewish people on the rise in recent years.

Reset checks in the leader of a local non-profit that’s fighting anti-semitism.

GUEST: Luke Berryman, founder and CEO of The Ninth Candle