California Gov. Gavin Newsom has launched the Governor’s Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education as a way to help students and teachers “recognize and respond to on-campus instances of anti-Semitism and bigotry.” The council will develop a volunteer speaker’s bureau, which could involve Holocaust survivors, to guide lessons about genocide, as well as to host seminars for educators and students.
In a 50-state study of millennials and Generation Z in the U.S. last year, researchers found that 63% of respondents did not know that six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, and 48% could not name a single concentration camp.
The state’s budget has also allocated $10 million for the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles to create a new exhibit of antisemitism, $2.5 million to expand the Holocaust Museum LA, and $2 million to contract with nonprofits that teach about the Holocaust.
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