Pope Francis has warned against the rebirth of anti-Semitic attitudes that fuelled the Holocaust. Francis made the comments as he marked the annual remembrance for Lithuania’s centuries-old Jewish community that was nearly wiped out during the Second World War.
On 9 September, 2018, Slovakia commemorated the "Memorial Day for Victims of the Holocaust and of Racial Violence". The day marks the date in 1941 when the Slovak government issued a decree on the legal status of Jews. The so-called Jewish Codex led to deportations which resulted in the murder of over 70,000 Slovak Jews.
The State Museum at Majdanek has just released its recent publication on the subject of education at memorial sites. The publication 'Pedagogy of remembrance. Theory and practice of education in martyrological museums', edited by Tomasz Kranz, contains materials from the international conference organised by the State Museum at Majdanek in October 2017.
Dozens of Danish Jews, including five Holocaust survivors, participated in a re-enactment of the rescue 75 years ago of Danish Jewry from the Nazi genocide. It was the first of several events this year marking the rescue of thousands of Danish Jews in October 1943 by local fishermen and other boat operators.