BREAKING: NEVER AGAIN EDUCATION ACT SIGNED INTO LAW

WJC Friend,

We wanted to report to you about an important milestone in the fight against antisemitic hate; a monumental achievement your loyalty helped to bring about: H.R. 943, The Never Again Education Act, has been signed into law after passing the U.S. House of Representatives with bipartisan support and passing the Senate by unanimous consent. This critical legislation will provide federal funding to expand Holocaust education in the United States.

The World Jewish Congress – with your dedicated support – has long advocated for the significance of increased Holocaust education in American schools and for the passage of this bill.

We are grateful for your continued partnership which resulted in this critical victory in our ongoing fight against growing intolerance and hatred.

The Never Again Education Act helps to ensure that awareness of the lessons of the Holocaust remains ingrained in the collective American consciousness. This legislation is a tremendous step forward toward prioritizing and standardizing Holocaust education, and we hope that it serves as a model to world leaders around the globe.

The World Jewish Congress is working with many European and other countries to ensure that Holocaust education becomes a permanent part of school curriculums. WJC President Ambassador Ronald S. Lauder has initiated the Auschwitz Legacy Project to make available to schools around the world an educational package in different languages that will enable teachers to devote a session each year on January 27, the date of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, to teach their students what happened in the largest of the Nazi death camps and about the importance of standing up against antisemitism. In order to make Holocaust education a central element of the study of modern history in the 21st century, the World Jewish Congress joined with UNESCO to create the multi-lingual Holocaust education online platform, aboutholocaust.org, geared at providing students, young adults, and others with essential information about the history of the Holocaust and its legacy.

Your gift to World Jewish Congress, American Section, supports and strengthens the WJC’s vital efforts to confront Holocaust denial, invest in education, and safeguard the Jewish people everywhere from antisemitic rhetoric, intimidation and violence.

Thank you for all you have done, and continue to do, on behalf of our Jewish communities.

WJC