The War on Memory Has Reached Our Schools

By Leo Pearlman

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The number of schools marking Holocaust Memorial Day has collapsed. In 2023, more than 2,000 secondary schools across the UK registered to commemorate the day, according to the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. Participation had risen every year since 2019. In 2024, that number fell to fewer than 1,200. In 2025, it dropped again, to just 854, a reduction of nearly 60 per cent from before the Hamas massacre. This is not coincidence and it is not administrative drift. It is fear and hate, both complicit and explicit. Teachers and charities report schools stepping back because of “backlash from parents”.

Topics: Holocaust, Commentary

Tags: Schools