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Fot. Robert Wilczyลski
This is exactly the terrain the Holocaust Museum of Curitiba has been working to change. Founded in 2011 as the first institution of its kind in Brazil, the museum has positioned education โ not simply commemoration โ at the center of its mission. For Carlos Reiss, the museum's general coordinator, the survey is less a diagnosis than a tool. "With concrete data, and not just assumptions, we can identify priority audiences, adjust our language, and improve our educational programs," he said.
The museum's pedagogical department sees its work as inseparable from, but not replaceable by, the formal school system. "The museum is neither the beginning nor the end of the work that develops in schools โ it is
a complement, something that deepens that knowledge," said Denise Weishof, who coordinates the department. It is
a framing that reflects the institution's broader philosophy: that Holocaust education is most effective when it moves across multiple contexts, reinforcing understanding instead of simply transmitting facts.
The survey's release is, in itself,
a strategic act. By publishing the first national portrait of what Brazilians do and don't know about the Holocaust, the Holocaust Museum of Curitiba and its partners have handed policymakers, educators, and civil society organizations something they didn't previously have:
a baseline. In a media environment increasingly shaped by disinformation and historical revisionism, that baseline matters.
Laura Nicolli Kullock
Public Relations at the Holocaust Museum of Curitiba and Masterโs Candidate in Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa, Israel.