Sec. 3. Definitions
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In this Act: The term eligible entity means— a local educational agency (as defined in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 7801 )); an organization eligible to receive funds under part B of title IV of such Act ( 20 U.S.C. 7171 et seq.); or a secondary school (as defined in section 8101 of such Act ( 20 U.S.C. 7801 )), that is independent of any local educational agency. The term antisemitism means a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.
Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities. The term the Holocaust means the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately 6,000,000 Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived racial inferiority , such as Roma gypsies, the disabled, and some of the Slavic people (Poles, Russians, and others).
Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals. The term Holocaust denial and distortion means discourse and propaganda that deny the historical reality and the extent of the extermination of the Jews by the Nazis and their accomplices during World War II, known as the Holocaust or the USC Shoah. Holocaust denial refers specifically to any attempt to claim that the Holocaust did not take place.
Holocaust distortion refers to intentional efforts to excuse or minimize the impact of the Holocaust or its principal elements, including collaborators and allies of Nazi Germany, to blame the Jews for causing their own genocide, or to portray the Holocaust as a positive historical event. The term Holocaust education center means an institution that furthers the teaching and learning about the Holocaust by offering programs for students and training for teachers and other types of professional leadership audiences.
The term Holocaust education program means a program that— has as its specific and primary purpose to improve awareness and understanding of the Holocaust and educate students on the lessons of the Holocaust as a means to raise awareness about the importance of preventing genocide, hate, and bigotry against any group of people; is delivered to students enrolled in middle grades or high school (as such terms are defined in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 7801 )); uses stories, testimonies, photos, diaries and other educational tools to support understanding rather than for shock value or sensationalism; and furnishes one or more of the following:
Educational materials that are age- and grade-appropriate. Student and school-based activities, including field trips. The hiring of professional Holocaust educators to lead programming. Teacher training. Programming that includes the following subjects where appropriate in instruction: The breadth of the history of the Holocaust, including, the Third Reich dictatorship, concentration camp system, persecution of Jews and non-Jews, Jewish and non-Jewish resistance, and post-World War II trials.
Antisemitism, racism, and the abridgement of human and civil rights. Instruction in the content of Holocaust education that includes— presentation of historically accurate information; correct terminology, vocabulary, and labels, and encouraging students to use this vocabulary; and primary documents, including personal testimony and sound historical research from respected resources. Supplementary resources required for teacher training, including transportation for teachers to and from training programs, housing at training programs, payment for substitute teachers while teachers are at training, and transportation of trainers to schools to provide training.
Goods or services designed to improve awareness and understanding of the Holocaust. The term Secretary means the Secretary of Education.
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