Jacki Alexander: De-Jewifying the Holocaust: Why Naming Jews Matters

In this episode of TO BE CONTINUED... Host Rabbi Jeff Salkin interviews Jacki Alexander, CEO and President of HonestReporting, about the concerning trend of ”de-Jewifying” the Holocaust: erasing Jews from Holocaust narratives and memory. The conversation explores how Holocaust remembrance is increasingly being universalized in ways that minimize or erase its specifically Jewish nature, despite the Holocaust being explicitly the ”Final Solution to the Jewish Question.”

The episode emphasizes the critical importance of accurate Holocaust education that centers Jewish victimhood while also drawing universal lessons about protecting democratic institutions and recognizing early warning signs of authoritarianism.