“Morning Show” Honors International Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 20, 2021In anticipation of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27th, the “Morning Show” will welcome Claudia Wiedeman, Education Director of the Shoah Foundation, on Thursday, January 21st to describe the benefits of Holocaust education on young people’s attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors as they move into adulthood.
Host Mary Jacobsen will interview Wiedeman about the Foundation’s recent and encouraging survey research of college students who had received genocide education in middle or high school.
“Holocaust education not only reflects gains in historical knowledge,” Wiedeman has said, “but also manifests in cultivating more empathetic, tolerant, and engaged students more generally,” including gains in “upstander” behavior, or the likelihood of challenging intolerant behavior by others.
Senator Michael Rodrigues, who represents First Bristol and Plymouth in the Massachusetts senate, will also visit the show to discuss An Act Concerning Genocide Education, a bill which is currently under committee review after passing the Senate unanimously in July of last year.
Rodrigues will talk about deciding to sponsor the bill after learning of research showing a diminishment in Americans’ knowledge of the scope and causes of the Holocaust. He will offer details of the bill’s creation of a Genocide Education Trust Fund, and outline reasons why he considers Holocaust education to be a priority for students in Massachusetts.
“The Morning Show” airs Thursday at 9 a.m. on Channel 9 and WJOP (FM 96.3) and will also be available on YouTube (click on the YouTube icon at NCMHub.org, then on the Playlist for “The Morning Show”).
Each show will also air on WJOP on Friday at 8 a.m. and the following Tuesday at 4 p.m. and Wednesday at 3 p.m., and is available on the Sound Cloud (click on the cloud icon at NCMHub.org).
For more information contact:
Mary Jacobsen
(978)255- 7523
OR
Sarah Hayden
Executive Director
Greater Newburyport Community Media
(978)961-0350
