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Teachers Join Summer Programs to Confront Surge of Hate

June 21, 2021

With extremism and hate crimes unprecedentedly high across the US, many teachers are availing themselves of TOLI Holocaust education programs this summer as a lens through which to address the causes and consequences of intolerance. “History, specifically the Holocaust, has taught us what happens when good…

EDUCATORS GATHER IN BILLINGS FOR HOLOCAUST PROGRAM

June 13, 2021

Nineteen educators from Montana, Oregon, and Wisconsin will gather in Billings, June 13-19, for a program on teaching the Holocaust. The seminar takes place when extremism and attacks on minorities have reached alarming levels in the US. The seminar, Worlds Apart but not Strangers:…

Holocaust Seminar Underway in Arizona as Antisemitism Surges in US

June 10, 2021

Ten educators from Arizona will gather virtually this week and next for a Holocaust education program. The seminar takes place when anti-Semitic attacks in the US have reached an unprecedented high level. Earlier this month, a synagogue was desecrated with swastikas in Tucson, while in other parts of…

TOLI Statement on the surge of anti-Semitism

May 25, 2021

The recent fighting between Israel and Hamas has been accompanied by a shocking surge of anti-Semitism in the US and abroad. Jews have been physically attacked in streets and public places across the US and in Europe. A wave of anti-Jewish hate has proliferated in social media. We deplore these attacks…

TOLI Statement on the Anti-Asian Hate Crime Bill

May 19, 2021

We welcome the passage of the anti-Asian hate crimes legislation by the House yesterday. It is a strong bipartisan demonstration that Congress and the American people stand united against the proliferation of attacks against Asian Americans, much of it resulting from vile conspiracy theories during the pandemic.

“Remembering Olga Lengyel and Five Chimneys

May 6, 2021

Is it possible that a Holocaust memoir could be written too early? That was a question hovering over a panel on April 6, commemorating Olga Lengyel, author of the 1946 memoir Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor’s True Story of Auschwitz.

Olga Lengyel: A Continuing Legacy

April 28, 2021

Since 2007, Holocaust survivor and author Olga Lengyel’s former home in New York City has been the site of a summer seminar for teachers offered by The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights (TOLI), a professional development organization for teachers across the United States and overseas. For…

April 26, 2021

Jews in Romania, once home to one of Europe’s largest Jewish communities, suffered deeply during the Holocaust. Nearly 400,000 Jews were killed in Romania or territories it controlled as an ally of Nazi Germany, with only 10,000 or so living in the country today. Yet young Romanians know very little…

Times of Israel – Why is online hate surging — and what can we do about it?

February 21, 2021

By Larry Luxner Six weeks after right-wing bigots, white supremacists and others violently stormed the US Capitol — and mere hours after the death of radio talk-show provocateur and conspiracy theorist Rush Limbaugh — two experts appeared via Zoom to discuss the proliferation of online hate. The Feb. 17 webinar…