“The purpose of Holocaust education, as it was conceived by the generation of the survivors, by Elie Wiesel and by the people around him including Rabbi Yitz Greenberg – the two of them founded the Washington Museum – was frankly to protect the Jewish People. The approach was different in Israel and in the Diaspora, but it was the same goal.

In Israel, it worked by inspiring high school students through trips to Poland to have greater motivation to serve in the army and volunteer for elite units and be part of the defense of the Jewish People. “We’re going to show you the consequences of Jewish defenselessness, and you are part of a generation that has been blessed with the possibility of taking up arms to defend the Jews.” That was how Holocaust education has played out in Israel to this day…”

Read the full piece in Prophecy: The Journal For Tomorrow