January 27, 2025
Now is not the time to cut Holocaust and genocide awareness education from the state budget. In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday, January 27th please take a moment this week to tell your legislators how critical funding Holocaust education is.
Since 2019, the state has supported Holocaust education. With the help of this funding, the Holocaust Center for Humanity has shared the history, lessons, and stories of the Holocaust with more than 90,000 students across Washington state. This work fosters critical thinking, media literacy, and social responsibility—empowering individuals to be upstanders and create positive change.
“From now on whenever I see any injustice taking place I will step in and remind them that we are all human and that we all believe, follow, think, look, feel, and behave differently from one another and that we should all treat each other like we are human.”
– WA High School Student
Join us in urging legislators to fund Holocaust and genocide awareness education in the 2025-2027 state operating budget! While this is a deeply challenging budget year, with an alarming rise in school incidents related to discrimination, hate speech, bullying, racism, xenophobia, and gender issues, today’s students must learn about the Holocaust—not as a static historical event, but as a universal lesson for the future our students build today.
