Iranian activist Maziar Bahari became fascinated with the Holocaust after moving to Canada in 1988. Now he’s teaming up with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to try to combat Holocaust denial among his fellow Iranians

You don’t need to tell Maziar Bahari about the challenges of trying to educate his fellow Iranians about the Holocaust.

“I grew up in Iran in the 1960s, to a politically conscious family. I left and wasn’t indoctrinated,” says the Iranian-Canadian journalist, filmmaker and activist. “But there are people who were born after the [Islamic] revolution and are only exposed to misinformation and antisemitism. That’s all they know.”