Creating Holocaust Remembrance through Education

Teaching Holocaust history in education systems around the world is a complex and varied issue, dependent on cultural, historical, and political context. Holocaust education includes not only the historical aspects, but also the ethical and moral aspects associated with it. Holocaust education can help foster civic commitment and consolidate a caring, enlightened, and active society. It can strengthen students’ sense of empathy and stimulate them to think critically about the ways in which people from the past thought, felt, acted, excluded, killed, and destroyed. This chapter will deal with changes and trends in Holocaust remembrance and commemoration in the field of education from the end of the war to the present day, focusing on the cultural and political context of dealing with the subject of the Holocaust, institutionalized teaching alongside museums and other agents of remembrance, diversity in attitudes and content of Holocaust education in different countries, and challenges and difficulties in teaching the subject.