The 2020 New Year’s Honours List marks Britain’s most far-reaching tribute yet to Holocaust survivors and educators, with almost 30 names from all over the country recognised for their contribution to preserving memories of the Shoah.
‘Guardians of memory’ keep watch over France’s Jewish cemeteries after attacks. Civic-minded non-Jewish volunteers take to patrolling cemeteries, call to ‘Leave the dead in peace!’
The Pilecki Institute has published a list of 3,262 names of Jews who were in possession of so called ‘Ładoś passports’, named after the Polish ambassador to Switzerland in 1940-45. The study was conducted together with the Jewish Historical Institute, Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum and the Polish Institute of National Remembrance.
Brian Kisida & Daniel Bowen: Can We Educate Hate Away? New Study of Students & Holocaust Education Shows It’s Possible, but Only If Conditions Are Right.