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The Memories Of Holocaust Survivors are Being Shared in a Place Where Few Holocaust Survivors Remain
In Arkansas, where Holocaust survivors are rare, eight young adults have become keepers and tellers of survivors’ stories. “I promise to keep your memory and tell your story.” One by one, eight storytellers stand in front of a Holocaust survivor and make this promise. [redirects to L’Chaim Magazine]
Candle and Chronicle Newsletter December 2025
Happy Hannukah! A year ago, we added Jenna Price to our team to run our Storyteller Bureau. Jenna helps the storytellers find venues to tell their stories to the community. In the last year, she more than doubled the number of programs we offered. [Redirects to Mailchimp]
Navigating the role of bystander: What can we do?
I am beginning to sympathize with the people of the 1930s – the people we describe as indifferent bystanders. I am also beginning to recognize that their stories are much too complicated for us to use the word indifferent. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]
The Memories Of Holocaust Survivors are Being Shared in a Place Where Few Holocaust Survivors Remain
In Arkansas, where Holocaust survivors are rare, eight young adults have become keepers and tellers of survivors’ stories. “I promise to keep your memory and tell your story.” One by one, eight storytellers stand in front of a Holocaust survivor and make this promise. [redirects to L’Chaim Magazine]
Candle and Chronicle Newsletter December 2025
Happy Hannukah! A year ago, we added Jenna Price to our team to run our Storyteller Bureau. Jenna helps the storytellers find venues to tell their stories to the community. In the last year, she more than doubled the number of programs we offered. [Redirects to Mailchimp]
Navigating the role of bystander: What can we do?
I am beginning to sympathize with the people of the 1930s – the people we describe as indifferent bystanders. I am also beginning to recognize that their stories are much too complicated for us to use the word indifferent. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]
The Heart of the Story
Every story about the Holocaust has a survivor at its heart. That sounds ridiculous on the surface, but it’s true. And it’s why I can tell (and hear) these stories repeatedly despite the emotional reaction each one brings. Allow me to explain. Many of the stories we...
L’Dor v’Dor
Zachor – Remember. This word appears almost 200 times in the Torah. Over and over again, we are commanded to remember. We are commanded to remember that which makes us holy (the Sabbath). We are commanded to remember that which makes us who we are (the Torah). And we...
Talking with my Father; Talking for my Father
On a trip to visit my father and stepmother in 1976, I brought a cassette recorder and half a dozen blank cassettes with the intention of interviewing Dad. The first evening after dinner I brought it down to where Dad was sitting, reading the Yiddish edition of...
Never Forget
I remember reading The Diary of Anne Frank as a tween and being drawn to her positivity and hopefulness despite the constant fear of discovery. Later, in college, I read Dr. Victor Frankl’s memoir Man’s Search for Meaning for a psychology class. That book, with its...
Candle and Chronicle Newsletter November 2025
It’s not often that a Holocaust exhibit changes the way I think about Holocaust education, but the new traveling Auschwitz exhibit made me realize that we have been missing something important. In this bizarre time of Nazi appreciation, we need to be talking about the perpetrators. [Redirects to Mailchimp]
2025 Annual Report
Teach the Shoah’s 2025 Annual Report offers a snapshot of the stories, storytellers, and spaces through which Holocaust memory is carried forward as living memory in new communities and new generations.
Candle & Chronicle March 2026 Dispatch
There are times when the work is visible—when a teller stands before an audience and a story is carried aloud. And there are times when the work happens more quietly. February held both. We gathered for an Echoes of the Past program, Saving Our Souls, examining acts...
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