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Outreach Programme
The Holocaust & the Outreach Programme is a broad initiative to educate & raise awareness on the subject of the Holocaust.
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United Nations Sep 7
Watch as history is made. World leaders will converge on UNHQ in NYC to tackle major challenges facing humanity at the 74th session of the .
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UN Human Rights Aug 29
To claim your rights, you must know your rights! We are excited to announce our partnership with , with the goal of improving the quality & quantity of human rights content on . Learn more:
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Outreach Programme Aug 29
Read stories about teachers who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. Yad Vashem has recognized those teachers as Righteous Among the Nations. 🔗
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Yad Vashem Aug 27
27 August 1943 "I left everyone at home, Mother and Father, in the ghetto, everyone." Read Tuvia Grin's moving to his sister in Eretz and discover the fate of the Grin family during the here >>
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Outreach Programme Aug 23
Shirli Gilbert discusses the role music played in the lives of people during the Holocaust 📸 Performance of the Kovno ghetto orchestra. (USHMM)
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Yad Vashem Aug 21
In 1944, Allied Air Forces captured aerial photographic evidence of Auschwitz-Birkenau, in preparation to bomb a nearby fuel factory 20 August 1944. Watch below and examine this controversial decision of not bombing the gas chambers
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United Nations Aug 21
Women humanitarians are making strides in previously male-dominated fields, such as logistics. Meet some of the women making a difference with in South Sudan.
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Outreach Programme Aug 19
“My Holocaust journey, and that of everyone not a survivor, is a journey toward understanding.” - Steven Spielberg
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António Guterres Aug 18
Aid workers around the world put themselves at risk to help save and improve the lives of others. On and every day, we must ensure that they are protected from harm, as required by international law.
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Outreach Programme Aug 18
Do you know the story of Petr Ginz, a young Jewish boy from Prague who loved to write and draw? Take a look at our study guide (available in 8 languages):
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Outreach Programme Aug 17
Professor Yehuda Bauer explains how the Holocaust evolved from a utopian ideology that involved hatred towards Jews,
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António Guterres Aug 15
The climate crisis does not only threaten the future of far-away places. It threatens our entire planet. All of us have the power to respond to the climate emergency by taking urgent .
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Outreach Programme Aug 16
Petr Ginz with his sister Eva (Chava) Pressburger Ginz. Take a look at our study guide "The Last Flight of Petr Ginz" 🔗
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Outreach Programme Aug 15
Whether you live in Central Africa, China, the South Pacific, or Switzerland, you have to be aware of the danger that genocide presents. Education about the Holocaust ultimately means to remove humanity as far away as possible from that extreme form of mass murder. Yehuda Bauer
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António Guterres Aug 14
Hate speech is on the rise, threatening peace, social stability and democratic values. That’s why I’ve launched a plan to identify, prevent, and confront hate speech, while upholding freedom of speech and expression.
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Outreach Programme Aug 14
“Why is it important to remember the Holocaust?” Last this year asked this question visitors and organizers at various events,
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Outreach Programme Aug 13
What happened in the Semlin Concentration Camp in April and May 1942 and why was this of particular significance in Holocaust history? Read Jovan Byford's paper on the Semlin Judenlager in Belgrade,
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Outreach Programme Aug 12
"The popular saying that "love is blind" is wrong. Hatred is blind – and blinding. There is no light IN hatred, no exit FROM it". Read Elie Wiesel's essay "Hatred and Humanity" 🔗
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Outreach Programme Aug 11
“Moon Landscape” by Petr Ginz. Petr drew Moon Landscape in Terezin before anyone had travelled to the moon.
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Outreach Programme Aug 10
'The fate of the Roma or "Gypsies" during the Holocaust is not well known despite the fact that they were targeted for extinction by National Socialist Germany". Read "The Fate of the Roma during the Holocaust: The Untold Story" by László Teleki,
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