The week of November 2 to 9, inclusive, marks the 35th annual Holocaust Education Week. The focus of this year’s Holocaust Week is Liberation: Aftermath & Rebirth. The purpose of this week has historically been to raise awareness and encourage remembrance of the atrocities perpetrated against the Jewish people during the Nazi regime, in the hope of encouraging remembrance and denouncing intolerance of all people.
During this week we also want to acknowledge those who were also targeted by this regime as a result of their social identities. People of colour, the Roma (commonly referred to as Gypsies), people with physical disabilities, and those who identified as LGBTQ were also subjected to intolerance and persecution in Europe. We encourage parents to discuss the Holocaust of World War II, the many different people who stood for social justice for all, and also the many other forms of genocide, world-wide in the past and present, as means of working towards the end of intolerance, discrimination and hatred.
