The education ministers of 50 European countries gathered for a two-day seminar on the Holocaust. The Council of Europe seminar, which opened Monday, is being held at the Terezin (Theresienstadt) museum and memorial on the grounds of the former concentration camp in the Czech Republic. Czech Education Minister Petra Buzkova told attendees that teachers should help students see the connections between Nazism and the activities of some skinhead groups today.
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