Letters to the Editor: Importance of teaching history of the Holocaust in Irish schools

'In a time of global misinformation, it is important to both praise and support the Irish education system for such vital teaching about the past as well as preparing children for the future'

A rose is placed on the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Germany on International Holocaust Remembrance Day last Monday. Picture: Maja Hitij/Getty

I read with great interest ‘It didn’t start with gas chambers. It started with politicians dividing the people, us vs them’,  but I have to disagree with one aspect of the article, the lack of teaching about the Holocaust in Ireland.

Far from not being educated about this tragedy, when I was in primary school in the late 1970s we were taught about the Holocaust as “the mass murder of Jews and others” by the Nazis, such was the terminology of the time.