BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — A North Dakota senate committee hosted a second reading on requiring mandatory learning of the Holocaust in public schools. Schools in North Dakota currently leave it up to a teacher’s discretion whether the Holocaust will be taught. The bill requires the superintendent of public instruction to submit an annual report to the governor and legislative management…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — Lawmakers were presented a bill to require all schools in North Dakota to teach the history of the Holocaust. Currently, it is up to a teacher’s discretion. The bill’s focus would make the teachings grade-level appropriate. It would also include the causes, history, impact, and how the United States played a role. Several teachers shared their…
Zelman and Sonya Gradowski (1935)FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – An NDSU professor will be presenting letters and writings from those that experienced the Holocaust. Adam Goldwyn will be giving the talk at the Moorhead Public Library from 6-7 p.m. on Thursday. While most know about the diary of Anne Frank, the writings that Goldwyn is sharing is done by people who…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – With November being Native American heritage month, NDSU partnered with The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to host the Who Stewards Our History discussion. They talked about contested artifacts from the Holocaust and American Indian History. The speakers discussed the return of disputed objects from Jewish victims of the Holocaust and from Indigenous populations in…
WABASHA CO., Minn. — The Republican Party of Wabasha County in far southeastern Minnesota says an image on its Facebook page that compares Minnesota’s mask mandate to Jewish people in Nazi death camps was maliciously posted. But Minnesota Republican Party Chairwoman Jennifer Carnahan says that the picture was posted by a Wabasha County GOP board member, who has since resigned…
GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — A Holocaust survivor, chilled by the events in Charlottesville this past weekend. “I wish I had a picture of my mother but I don’t,” Reva Kibort said. “She died from starvation in the ghetto.” Almost every time Kibort mentions her mother who she last saw in a Nazi labor camp in Poland, the 84-year-old gets very…
