New study on the role of historical sites and museums in Holocaust education and human rights education in the EU
“Linking education about the Holocaust and education about human rights represents a great challenge to memorial site staff and teachers, but calls for linking history to the present can be answered with a better integration of human rights education into the school curriculum and into education programmes at memorial sites”, said Ilze Brands Kehris, Chairperson of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rightsin Vienna on the occasion of 65th Anniversary of the Liberation of the The Auscwitz Concentration.
On this occasion the EU Fundamental Rights Agency published a study called: Discover the Past for the Future: A study on the role of historical sites and museums in Holocaust education and human rights education in the EU.
The main aim of this project was to inform policy makers and funding institutes about the current role that visits to original sites and historical exhibitions play in school education, and aimed to assist school teachers and operators of commemoration sites, original sites and historical museums in their work on Human Rights education. The project also develops practical guiding material for school teachers and operators of commemoration sites, original sites and historical museums.
The main results from the study and the full text can be consulted at the web site of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency at http://fra.europa.eu/fraWebsite/products/publications_reports/pub_holocaust-education_en.htm