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Candle & Chronicle Newsletter February 2023
January was a series of firsts for us at Teach the Shoah. In this edition of the newsletter, we spotlight storyteller and Teach the Shoah founder Violet Neff-Helms.
Candle & Chronicle Newsletter November 2022
Welcome to the first issue of “Candle and Chronicle,” our new Teach the Shoah newsletter. In this edition, we spotlight storyteller Leora Lazarus.
Broken Glass, Preserved Memory
Please don’t let them find out I’m Jewish. Please don’t let them find out I’m Jewish. It is November 10, 1938, and Margot Gunther (Jeremias) is riding the train to school. It’s an hour ride from her home in Hoffenheim, Germany to Heidelberg where her school is. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]
Candle & Chronicle Newsletter February 2023
January was a series of firsts for us at Teach the Shoah. In this edition of the newsletter, we spotlight storyteller and Teach the Shoah founder Violet Neff-Helms.
Candle & Chronicle Newsletter November 2022
Welcome to the first issue of “Candle and Chronicle,” our new Teach the Shoah newsletter. In this edition, we spotlight storyteller Leora Lazarus.
Broken Glass, Preserved Memory
Please don’t let them find out I’m Jewish. Please don’t let them find out I’m Jewish. It is November 10, 1938, and Margot Gunther (Jeremias) is riding the train to school. It’s an hour ride from her home in Hoffenheim, Germany to Heidelberg where her school is. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]
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...
Living in the Site of a Remembrance
Every day, I watch as people pause to look at the four enormous white pillars in the street in front of my apartment building. These pillars represent the original pillars of the Leopoldstädter Temple, once the largest synagogue in Vienna with the capacity to hold...
When it’s an attack on your own community
I awoke on Sunday morning in Singapore to the news that another synagogue was under attack. The rabbi and several congregants of a synagogue in Texas were being held hostage by an unknown assailant. An old story, a repeated story – Jews under attack for being Jews. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]
How to Teach Race Relations: Lessons from Holocaust Education
A group of 7th graders sit in a circle, white kids in the center, black and brown kids on the outside. They have been sorted by a “privilege” score assigned based on the color of their skin. The white students are trying to find a way to apologize to the students of color for the sins of their ancestors. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]
How to deal with antisemitism in our schools
“Never ascribe to malice what can be explained by ignorance, confusion, or ineptitude.” This statement was made by Rabbi Geoffrey Dennis in response to a disturbing incident that happened in Texas last week. In a teacher training in Southlake, a suburb outside Dallas, the curriculum director made a surprising statement: “Make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust, that you have one that has an opposing…that has other perspectives.” [redirects to the Times of Israel]
Living in the Site of a Remembrance
Every day, I watch as people pause to look at the four enormous white pillars in the street in front of my apartment building. These pillars represent the original pillars of the Leopoldstädter Temple, once the largest synagogue in Vienna with the capacity to hold...
Lessons from the Kausenberger Rebbe
The Klausenberger Rebbe, the leader of a Hasidic Jewish community in Poland, was separated from his wife and 11 children upon arrival in Auschwitz Birkenau. Left alone in the world, the Rebbe sat in the barrack, and for the first time in his life, he cried. He had...
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