CWB Holocaust Remembrance Day: 2024 Community Wide Teach In January 26th 2024

2024 Holocaust Remembrance and Education

Recognizing the Extraordinary Courage of

Victims and Survivors of the Holocaust

Flowering meadow with butterflies – a painting by Dorit Weiserová, a young girl imprisoned in the Terezín (Theresienstadt) ghetto. Dorit was born in 1932. She was killed in 1944 in the Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Death Camp (1940-1945). Credit: The Jewish Museum in Prague

The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 is Recognizing the Extraordinary Courage of Victims and Survivors of the Holocaust

Recognizing January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—the United Nations General Assembly calls upon every member state to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of others persecuted by Nazism. The aim is to foster remembrance and develop educational programs that prevent future genocides.

At CWB, we believe that the foundation for this prevention begins in the classroom. We extend our gratitude for your commitment to inspiring students by promoting universal human values—diversity, altruism, forgiveness, courage, respect, and faith in humanity.

• CWB is dedicated to curating Resources, Lesson Plans, and Teaching Tools to facilitate your Classroom Instruction.
• Upon registration, all participants will receive the curated resources for our Community Wide Teach-In.

We encourage all educators to teach the lessons of the Holocaust to combat antisemitism, genocide, and hate. Our transformative educational opportunities focus on diversity, inclusion, and respect.

Freedom, a concept interpreted differently by each individual, is at the heart of this year’s theme. In every genocide, the targeted victims experience a gradual erosion and removal of their freedom before facing atrocities. Professor Gregory Stanton’s ten stages of genocide underscore that genocide never occurs spontaneously; it is fueled by circumstances that create a climate conducive to such atrocities.

Perpetrator regimes not only strip the freedom of their targeted populations but also restrict the freedoms of others to suppress opposition. Despite this, in every genocide, there are courageous individuals who risk their own freedom to help others, preserve freedom, or stand up against oppressive regimes.

Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 holds particular significance as it marks the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

Despite the lessons learned from past genocides, the world witnessed the fragile freedom in Rwanda shattered, resulting in the murder of over one million Tutsis in just one hundred days.

This tragic event emphasizes the ongoing relevance of Holocaust education in preventing the recurrence of such atrocities.