State secretary Palkovics emphasised the importance of education at the March of the Living in Poland.
”The role of education in preserving the past is becoming increasingly important as the number of Holocaust survivors grows ever fewer” said Minister of State for Education László Palkovics, who is representing the Hungarian government at the International March of the Living between Auschwitz and Birkenau. ”For us to be able to put our future in suitable order, we must also evaluate our past in a suitable fashion, but the younger generation has fewer and fewer opportunities to meet people who survived the horrors of the Holocaust, and accordingly it is the task of education to prevent the Holocaust from being forgotten”, he told the Hungarian news agency.
”This is why since 2013 the national curriculum includes more and more elements relating to the Holocaust, Jewish culture and the State of Israel, drawn up in cooperation with experts from the Jewish Roundtable”, Mr. Palkovics added.
