International Conference
On Education
and the Holocaust
The initiative is jointly organized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) and the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The second bi-annual conference will take place in Washington on 4-8 December 2017.
Thirty senior educators – from Argentina, Columbia, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Namibia, South Africa, Tunisia, and Ukraine – will participate in an important meeting.
The main goal of the conference is to advance learning about why and how the Holocaust happened, as well as how genocide can happen. Participants will be organized into country teams of educators, civil society leaders, academics and education ministry officials. During the conference, participants will design projects that help institutionalize or strengthen Holocaust education in ways relevant to their national contexts and subsequently implement them.
Participants will work together with international experts, in workshops and roundtables to devise strategies for Holocaust education. Project activities will consider curriculum development and revision, creation of educational materials, capacity-building initiatives, cultural projects, academic initiatives, and pedagogical research. USHMM and UNESCO will continue to support these country teams after the conference as they bring their projects to fruition.
The inaugural 2015 conference included educators from Chile, Hungary, India, Lithuania, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Rwanda, Republic of Korea, and Turkey. Teams from these countries successfully developed Holocaust education curricula, hosted international conferences for educators, arranged for exhibitions on the Holocaust and genocide to be hosted in their countries, and more.
“The Holocaust was a watershed event with global implications, and its lessons are important for a global audience,” said Tad Stahnke, Director of the Initiative on Holocaust Denial and anti- Semitism at USHMM. “The Museum is working to support educators throughout the world who are trying to reach young people and key segments of society with critical lessons from the Holocaust in order to build a better future.”
about UNESCO’s program on education about
the Holocaust and genocide
about UNESCO’s program on education about
the Holocaust and genocide