The Holocaust Museum and Education Center will be located along the Freedom Trail.
Courtesy of Schwartz Silver Architects
Police officers across Greater Boston spent three hours in a Suffolk University law classroom Monday, studying the steps that led police to enforce the rules of Nazi Germany decades ago.
Why it matters: The training, the first of its kind in Boston, aims to share lessons from the Holocaust about how bigotry grew virtually unchallenged in hopes of preventing history from repeating itself.
- Jody Kipnis, co-founder of the Holocaust Legacy Foundation, helped bring the training to Boston and said she hopes it makes police and prosecutors more equipped to respond to antisemitism.
The big picture: Antisemitism has been on the rise in recent years, due to increasing white supremacy and the aftermath of the attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
- Antisemitic incidents increased 205% in 2023 in New England, per the Anti-Defamation League’s estimates.
- Separate research shows antisemitic hate crimes hit record highs in Boston that year.
By Steph Solis
Jan 6, 2025