Teach the Shoah is an online Holocaust education nonprofit that specializes in training people to tell testimony-based stories of the Holocaust. Why do we do this? To build personal connections to the stories of the Holocaust. Because we believe that EMPATHY is our most powerful tool against HATE. [redirects to MailChimp]
Speaking At My Childhood Synagogue
The date was April 27, 2014. The place, Beth Israel Synagogue in Salisbury, MD, the synagogue that our family had belonged to since moving to Salisbury in 1950, the year before I was born. The event was the annual Yom HaShoah program, which my father, who survived the...
Breaking the Silence
I’ve been telling other people’s stories in writing for more than 40 years. Telling my own in person… I wasn’t sure about that at all. “You can write it and read it,” I told myself, having already signed up for Teach the Shoah’s class. That was before I realised what...
In Front of a Live Audience
I have certainly done my share of live performances. I minored in theater in college, back in the day. I even flirted with the idea of going into acting. Nothing could have prepared me for what it was like to present a Holocaust story in person for the first time. I...



