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On Friday 4/27 experts from around the world convened at UNESCO headquarters in Paris to discuss how and why the Holocaust has become a global point of reference for mass violence.
UNESCO's programs in Holocaust education continue to develop and strengthen on a number of fronts. The U.S. National Commission for UNESCO is currently working with Holocaust educators in the United States to promote the establishment of a Holocaust education network through UNESCO existing system of University Chairs. The Commission also recently submitted the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum as a nominee for UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.
You can read more about the meeting here.
The Holocaust was terrible, without question, but it’s always interested me that it’s become the violence benchmark. Stalin killed people on a scale Hitler barely scratched, was three times as quiet about it, and avoided history’s greatest black mark as a result.
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