Genocide against the Tutsi: UNESCO and Rwanda to step-up the role of education in the memorial sites

April 7 2025 marks 31 years since the start of the genocide perpetrated against the Tutsi in Rwanda. In the space of 100 days, nearly a million men, women and children, Tutsi, but also moderate Hutu and Twa, were murdered. This year once again, the UNESCO …

Trump announces eight new appointees to Holocaust Memorial Council

(May 2, 2025 / JNS) U.S. President Donald Trump announced eight new appointments to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, which oversees the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. The move comes days after Trump fired several …

Trump taps shock jock, Haredi publisher and Witkoff's son for Holocaust Memorial Council

Trump Names Eight New Appointees to US Holocaust Memorial Museum Board

Eight new appointees for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum board were announced by President Donald Trump in a social media post on Thursday night. These trustees will replace the board members appointed by former President Joe Biden that Trump removed just …

Trump taps shock jock Sid Rosenberg and a Haredi newspaper publisher for Holocaust Memorial Council

Days after firing eight Joe Biden-era appointees from the board of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, including former second gentleman Doug Emhoff, President Donald Trump tapped eight new members. Among them are shock jock Sid Rosenberg, who was a Trump …

Memorial

Thirteen people, including four children, were executed by the Nazis in November 1944 in Valaská Belá in the Prievidza district of Slovakia. A monument commemorating the victims of the Roma Holocaust stands at the site of the mass execution. Nacisti vo …

Area Students Tour Human Rights, Holocaust Museums

Students from Chautauqua Lake Central School, Pine Valley, Sherman, Brocton, Clymer, Silver Creek and Forestville are pictured on a trip to Washington, D.C. Students from several area high schools recently traveled to Washington, D.C., as part of a program …

Of Course Trump Got His Grubby Little Hands On The Holocaust Memorial Board

Of course, Donald's administration has their grubby little hands all over the Holocaust Memorial Museum board. Imagine if Biden or Obama did this. Donald's administration fired former second gentleman Doug Emhoff, who is Jewish, and other Biden-era …

What the Auschwitz memorial gets wrong

In 1982, to the shock of almost everyone who knew me, I began a two-year training programme designed to turn me into a competent prison governor. It was a largely unmemorable experience but with a singular exception. I read an article about the commandants …

Shame: Trump caught literally politicizing U.S. Holocaust Museum

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