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Honoring International Holocaust Remembrance Day

On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day — which marks the 80th anniversary of the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau — we honor the memory of the 6 million Jews and the millions of Roma, Sinti, Slavs, disabled persons, LGBTQ+ individuals, political dissidents and others who were murdered in the Holocaust. The world lost the perspectives and contributions of millions of individuals because of hate.

  • Acclaimed Documentary ‘One Survivor Remembers’ Urges All to Never Forget
  • Inspiring Hope: A Conversation With Maud Dahme
  • ‘Never Again’ Starts With Education
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Inspiring Hope and Countering Hate

Our nation deserves leaders who respect the rights and dignity of all people and who are committed to the values of our democracy. We must, therefore, unite to reject hate and bigotry and to make responsible choices. 

  • Protect LGBTQ+ Progress Toward Equality
  • Inspiring Hope: A Conversation With Maud Dahme
  • History and the Power of Place
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Our Humanity Is Bound Together: Discussing the Holocaust

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is commemorated on January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945. We honor the memory of the 6 million Jews and the millions of Roma, Sinti, Slavs, disabled persons, LGBTQ+ individuals, political dissidents and others who were murdered in the Holocaust. And we encourage learning from the survivors as we reflect on the significance of this history.

  • Acclaimed Documentary ‘One Survivor Remembers’ Urges All to Never Forget
  • One Survivor Remembers
  • ‘Hope, Despair and Memory’
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Jaci Jones

Jaci Jones (she/her) is a social justice educator with experience as a professional learning facilitator with Learning for Justice, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center and as a high school history teacher at John F Kennedy Memorial High School in Iselin, NJ. She completed her undergraduate education at Penn State University where she majored in Secondary Education and Social Studies, and minored in History and Dance. With a passion for human rights, Jaci completed her Masters in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Kean University where she now adjuncts, training teachers how to teach