Friday marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commemorates the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. But educators say Holocaust remembrance must also be integrated into elementary school curriculums
, because instilling that knowledge in young students is a way to combat antisemitism across schools.
One of Ms. Kozierok’s students, Caleb Shim, 11, said he was “shocked” to learn about what had happened during this time in history. “It’s important to learn about it so we do not make the same mistakes. It was a horrible thing,” he said. The survey of 3,600 students in Canada and the United States was commissioned by Liberation75, an Ontario-based Holocaust education non-profit, and led by Alexis Lerner, who was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Western University and is now an assistant professor in political science at the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland.Prof.
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