{"id":2712,"date":"2019-03-27T19:54:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T19:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/?p=2712"},"modified":"2019-03-27T19:55:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T19:55:36","slug":"chgs-supports-the-never-again-education-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/chgs-supports-the-never-again-education-act\/","title":{"rendered":"CHGS Supports the Never Again Education Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We\u2019re at crossroads today: learning lessons from the Holocaust is fundamentally important. Understanding the dire consequences of hate and intolerance is more important today than just about any point in history. Unfortunately, it comes at a time when our memory of the Holocaust is fast fading. It seems as we continue to lose survivors and their critical connection to the past, we lose our willingness to apply their lessons to our own time. A year ago, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany brought this sobering reality to the forefront<\/a>: Nearly half of millennials cannot name a single concentration camp. Nearly a third of Americans drastically underestimate the number of victims of the Holocaust. Most astounding, almost 70% of Americans say they don\u2019t care about the Holocaust. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Participants from a recent CHGS educator workshop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a stunning revelation for an event only seventy years\nin our past. While it\u2019s easy to be disheartened by the lack of awareness, there\nis hope. Teachers across the United States are willing and eager to bring lessons\nfrom the Holocaust into their classrooms (the success of the Center\u2019s Genocide\nEducation Outreach program and our annual teacher workshops are a testament to\nthat), but teachers often face challenges in doing so. A lack of familiarity,\naccess to resources and funding point to the barriers teachers face nationally.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To that end, CHGS is proud to be among more than seventy nationwide\norganizations calling on Congress for an expedited hearing for the Never Again\nEducation Act<\/a>. <\/em> The Act itself opens\nthe door for public funds to be allocated for Holocaust education and pave the\nway for private organizational support for Holocaust education in the schools,\nensuring educators and students have access to invaluable resources. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To view a copy of the letter, click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re at crossroads today: learning lessons from the Holocaust is fundamentally important. Understanding the dire consequences of hate and intolerance is more important today than just about any point in history. Unfortunately, it comes at a time when our memory of the Holocaust is fast fading. It seems as we continue to lose survivors and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,96749],"tags":[96806],"class_list":["post-2712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-teaching-genocide-and-mass-violence","tag-holocaust-education"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2712"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2717,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions\/2717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}