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June 27, 2022
An American writer whose book about her grandfather’s Nazi wartime collaboration with Nazism set off a controversy in Lithuania, will speak at a Holocaust program in Vilnius, June 27-July 1. Silvia Foti, author of “The Nazi’s Granddaughter, How I Learned My Grandfather Was a War Criminal”, set out to write…
June 26, 2022
Hundreds of educators across the US and Europe are taking part in programs this summer about the Holocaust and the lessons that can be drawn today, a time of surging hate crimes and extremism. The programs are sponsored and organized by The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Education and Human…June 18, 2022
Billings, MT – Seventeen educators from Montana will come together in Billings next week for a program that draws lessons from the Holocaust and the persecution of Native Americans at a time when extremism and hate crimes have surged in the US. The teachers’ event, “Worlds…June 16, 2022
The FBI in Albuquerque joined TOLI and educators at the New Mexico seminar, “Teaching the Holocaust for Social Justice” and tweeted a thank- you to the organization on June 14, 2022. The #FBI thanks The Olga Lengyel Institute @olgas_table for inviting…March 3, 2022
TOLI strongly condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine, an unprovoked assault that has brought incalculable suffering and loss of life to the people of Ukraine. We deplore President Putin’s justification for the attack as “denazification,” a gross distortion of Holocaust history applied to a democratic country whose Jewish…January 18, 2022
We are grateful that all the hostages held in the Colleyville, Texas synagogue were released unharmed, with appreciation to first responders. The event, following the deadly attacks on the synagogues in Pittsburgh, 2018, and Poway, CA, 2019 is a painful reminder of the fact that Jewish institutions in America are…
November 25, 2021
By Larry Luxner When Mignon Langnas, a nurse in a Jewish children’s hospital in Vienna, sent her small son and daughter on a ship to the United States after the Nazi invasion in 1939, she had no idea when — or if — she’d ever see them again. It was…
October 12, 2021
Renowned Historian Sees Lessons from Holocaust as important in era of rising Authoritarianism Holocaust education can provide an important test of democracy, said the renowned historian, Timothy Snyder. “Democracy is about self-correction. It’s about reflection, and Holocaust history is an opportunity to reflect, and…
August 11, 2021
By Jaelen Ogadhoh Two Clackamas County educators are attending a five-day seminar focused on implementing Holocaust education and other instruction on racial and ethnic discrimination in Oregon. The program, called “Lessons from the Past: Understanding the Holocaust and Human Rights Violations” is taking place Aug. 2-6 at the Oregon Jewish…July 21, 2021
On July 26-30, educators from across Wisconsin will gather virtually to participate in a week-long seminar on teaching the Holocaust and the danger of intolerance. The seminar takes place as hate-fueled extremism and attacks on minorities have reached alarming levels in the US. Looking to the…