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World Jewish News
Brazillian schools to teach Shoah
21.06.2009 A project bill established mandatory teaching of the Holocaust in the public schools of a major Brazilian city.
Municipal schools in Porto Alegre must include the Holocaust in its history mandatory curriculum, according to a bill passed by Jewish councilman Valter Nagelstein.
"Several youths are not familiar with this history and the lessons that stem from these sad times. Therefore the public school system has the duty to promote a better understanding of this subject," Nagelstein told the Brazilian Jewish press.
Porto Alegre is among Brazil's ten largest cities and home to its third largest Jewish community, with some 12,000 Jews. With a large population of German descendants, it is also the site of many anti-Semitic attacks in Brazil.
According to an American Jewish Committee survey conducted in 2001, one-third of Brazilians have no awareness at all of the Nazi extermination of Jews during World War II, and 11 percent say it is possible that the Holocaust never happened.
Источник: JTA
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