This volume represents the most comprehensive collection ever produced of empirical research on Holocaust education around the world. It comes at a critical time, as the world approaches the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Preface: Mmantsetsa Marope, Director, UNESCO IBE.- Editors' notes and acknowledgements.- Part I: Introduction.- Holocaust education in the 21st century: Curriculum, policy and practice.  E. Doyle Stevick and Zehavit Gross.- Part II: Framing the issues for a new millennium.- Address to the German Bundestag, 27 January 2000. Elie Wiesel.- "Why does the way of the wicked prosper?" Teaching the Holocaust in the land of Jim Crow: Ted Rosengarten.- Is teaching and learning about the Holocaust relevant for human rights education? Monique Eckmann.- Shoah, antisemitism, war and genocide: Text and context. Yehuda Bauer.- Learning from eyewitnesses: Examining the history and future of personal encounters with Holocaust survivors and resistance fighters. Dienke Hondius.- Teaching about and teaching through the Holocaust: Insights from (social) psychology. Barry van Driel.- Part III Reckoning with the Holocaust in Israel, Germany and Poland.- Between involuntary and voluntary memories: A case study of Holocaust education in Israel. Zehavit Gross.- Domesticating the difficult past: Polish students narrate the Second World War. Magdalena Gross.-  Mind the gap: Holocaust education in Germany, between pedagogical intentions and classroom interactions. Wolfgang Meseth and Matthias Proske.- Part IV  Holocaust education in diverse classrooms.- Holocaust education and critical citizenship in an American fifth grade: Expanding repertoires of meanings, language and action. Louise B. Jennings.- "They think it is funny to call us Nazis": Holocaust education and multicultural education in a diverse Germany. Debora Hinderliter Ortloff.- Genocide or Holocaust education: Exploring different Australian approaches for Muslim school children. Suzanne D. Rutland.- Part V: International dynamics, global trends and comparative research in Holocaust education. A global mapping of the Holocaust in textbooks and curricula. Peter Carrier, Eckhardt Fuchs, and TorbenMessinger.- International organisations in the globalisation of Holocaust education. Karel Fracapane.- Compliant policy and multiple meanings: Conflicting Holocaust discourses in Estonia. E. Doyle Stevick.- The Holocaust as history and human rights: A cross-national analysis of Holocaust education in social science textbooks, 1970-2008. Patricia Bromley and Susan Garnett Russell.- Measuring Holocaust knowledge and its relationship to attitudes towards diversity in Spain, Canada, Germany and the United States. Jack Jedwab.- Part VI  Holocaust education in national and regional contexts.- Holocaust history, memory and citizenship education: The case of Latvia. Tom Misco.- Mastering the past? Nazism and the Holocaust in West German history textbooks of the 1960s. Brian Puaca.- Informed pedagogy on the Holocaust: A survey of educators trained by leading Holocaust organizations in the United States. Corey Harbaugh.- "Unless they have to": Power, politics and institutional hierarchy in Lithuanian Holocaust education. Christine Beresniova.-  Holocaust education in Austria: A (hi)story of complexity and prospects for the future. Herbert Bastel, Christian Matzka, and Helene Miklas.- "Thanks to Scandinavia" and beyond: Nordic Holocaust education in the 21st century. Fred Dervin.-  Holocaust education in Scotland: Taking the lead or falling behind? Paula Cowan and Henry Maitles.- Part VII To know, to remember, to act.- Failing to learn from the Holocaust. Geoffrey Short.- Towards a new theory of Holocaust remembrance in Germany: Education, preventing antisemitism and advancing human rights. Reinhold Boschki, Bettina Reichmann, and Wilhelm Schwendemann.- Epistemological aspects of Holocaust education: Between ideologies and  interpretations. Zehavit Gross and Doyle Stevick.- Notes on contributors.