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The report examines the role of historical sites and museums in Holocaust education as well as human rights education in the European Union.
"It is not enough to listen to a witness who is over 80 years old if you do not connect his/her experience to the present time, if you don't recognise there is still a deficit in human rights today," the agency quoted one teacher as saying.
Based on the findings of its report, the agency suggested that EU countries better integrate rights education into the school curriculum.
Teacher education and training should also include both learning about the Holocaust and human rights more generally, it said.
Many of the students the agency interviewed said they would "appreciate a stronger connection to the present in education activities about the Holocaust, both at school and at historical sites and museums," it said.
Only one of the 22 surveyed Holocaust commemoration sites regarded informing people about human rights as its most important objective.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp outside the city of Krakow was liberated on January 27, 1945, by Soviet troops. The day was designated International Holocaust Memorial Day by the United Nations in 2005.
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"It is not enough to listen to a witness who is over 80 years old if you do not connect his/her experience to the present time, if you don't recognise there is still a deficit in human rights today," the agency quoted one teacher as saying.
Based on the findings of its report, the agency suggested that EU countries better integrate rights education into the school curriculum.
Teacher education and training should also include both learning about the Holocaust and human rights more generally, it said.
Many of the students the agency interviewed said they would "appreciate a stronger connection to the present in education activities about the Holocaust, both at school and at historical sites and museums," it said.
Only one of the 22 surveyed Holocaust commemoration sites regarded informing people about human rights as its most important objective.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp outside the city of Krakow was liberated on January 27, 1945, by Soviet troops. The day was designated International Holocaust Memorial Day by the United Nations in 2005.
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