The 2021 ADL Virtual Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program features a keynote interview with Holocaust Survivor Judith Altmann. Register here. We recently spoke with Judy about her experiences during the Holocaust and her thoughts about how her experience shaped her. ADL: Please describe your life before the Holocaust. What was your childhood like? Judy Altmann: I had a wonderful
A new national survey shows that Holocaust education in high school reflects gains not only in historical knowledge but also manifests in cultivating more empathetic, tolerant, and engaged students. The results also indicate that exposure to Holocaust survivor testimony is strongly associated with numerous positive outcomes in early adulthood including higher critical thinking skills and a greater sense of
What do Pharaoh, Martin Luther and Robert Bowers have in common? To understand modern-day antisemitism and its resurgence, including Holocaust denial, extremism and other manifestations, it is critical to first explore the beginnings of antisemitism itself. Through an interactive analysis of antisemitic thought and writing throughout history, we will learn how very specific trends, themes and stereotypes lead straight from
Although this school year has looked very different for many students in our region, ADL’s No Place for Hate Student Art Contest received a greater number of submissions than the year before. More than 140 pieces of art were submitted as students shared their hopes, their compassion, their strength and most importantly a desire to create a community that
In 1941, a dedicated group of community leaders – led by Col. Melvin Schlesinger and including such notables as Lou Isaacson, A.B. Hirschfeld, Max Goldberg, and Emmett Heitler – started a regional office of the Anti-Defamation League in Denver. Some say it was the first regional office ever organized outside of Chicago, where ADL was founded in 1913, and
