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The Gandel Holocaust Studies Program for Australian Educators is a year-long professional program aimed at training a cadre of expert teachers who are active throughout Australia. The objective of the Gandel Program is to form an active and organized network of Australian educators committed to teaching about the Holocaust and its universal implications, using an interdisciplinary and age-appropriate approach.

A two year study of over 2500 Israeli high school students and hundreds of high school teachers and administrators found that 83% of the students want more lessons on Holocaust and 80% believe that learning about the Holocaust is relevant to their lives. Most of those who participate in school-organized trips to death camps in Poland feel more bound to universal human values.The study, conducted by Dr. Erik Cohen of the Bar Ilan University's Churgin School of Education , was presented at a teachers' conference on Holocaust education at Yad Vashem.

This interactive online exhibition accompanies a physical exhibition currently being shown in the Kimmel-Rowan Gallery on the USHMM’s lower level. State of Deception reveals how shortly after World War I, the Nazi Party began to transform itself from an obscure, extremist right-wing group into the largest political party in democratic Germany. Hitler early on recognized how propaganda, combined with the use of terror, could help his extremist party gain mass support and votes. The exhibition shows how the Nazis employed propaganda to acquire power and help pave the way for war while creating a climate of hatred, suspicion and, most importantly, indifference that facilitated the elimination from society of Jews and others deemed undesirable by the Nazi state.

In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Kristallnacht Pogroms which took place across Germany on November 9-10, 1938, the USHMM has made available on their website an online exhibition describing and showing the Kristallnacht events. The exhibit contains videos of witnesses as well as much documentary material and an online resource kit for memorial activities.