Staff from the institute also travels abroad to work on Holocaust education in other countries. The staff of the ISHS is composed of past and present teachers, most of them with PhDs in Holocaust studies. Some teach at other venues as well, others exclusively at the school. Lately it has made several international diplomatic contacts which have lead to seminars being prepared exclusively for those countries. Last October the first ever seminar of Austrian educators was held at the school.
Most families have relatives of some degree or another who actually experienced the Holocaust.
Many stories are told, many books read, but at the same time there is grave ignorance, Imber says. Holocaust Remembrance Day ought to in a sense be a culmination of what one has learned about the subject. The learning must take place all year round, she says. Kantor considers generations of Israelis to have been traumatized by the way the subject of the Holocaust was taught to them. Only the trauma was passed on, not the other aspects.