Students often visit a Holocaust museum and then ask if Jews still exist today. Dara Horn calls this a “null curriculum”.
Students often visit a Holocaust museum and then ask if Jews still exist today. Dara Horn calls this a “null curriculum”.
The term genocide itself is today used against the Jew of the nations, the state of Israel.
The initiative marks the expansion of this European map of memory in Portugal, following Lisbon, and reinforces the commitment to preserving individual stories shaped by Nazi persecution.
The Shaaré Tikvá Synagogue, in Lisbon, held a solemn ceremony in tribute to the victims of the Holocaust, bringing together ambassadors, diplomatic representatives, and members of civil society.
Over 300,000 students have already visited the museum in the last few years. Portugal has no more than one million teenagers in total.
Porto's museum equipment practically monopolized education about the Holocaust in Portugal.