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Tools for Creating Engaging Holocaust Commemorations for Jewish and Interfaith Audiences
The seder is the perfect model for developing a Holocaust commemoration. At the seder, we tell the story of our survival from a great tragedy ….. In a Holocaust commemoration we want to tell the story of our survival from another great tragedy. [Originally published in the Jewish Educator.]
Using Storytelling to Personalize Holocaust Education in the Classroom
Learning to be a Holocaust storyteller means learning to take a primary source such as testimony, memoir, or diary, and to retell the story told in that testimony in a compelling way. [Originally published in the Jewish Educator.]
Candle & Chronicle Newsletter September 2023
Teach the Shoah has been growing by leaps and bounds. We are excited to announce a major milestone in that growth: Teach the Shoah has convened its first official Board of Directors.
Tools for Creating Engaging Holocaust Commemorations for Jewish and Interfaith Audiences
The seder is the perfect model for developing a Holocaust commemoration. At the seder, we tell the story of our survival from a great tragedy ….. In a Holocaust commemoration we want to tell the story of our survival from another great tragedy. [Originally published in the Jewish Educator.]
Using Storytelling to Personalize Holocaust Education in the Classroom
Learning to be a Holocaust storyteller means learning to take a primary source such as testimony, memoir, or diary, and to retell the story told in that testimony in a compelling way. [Originally published in the Jewish Educator.]
Candle & Chronicle Newsletter September 2023
Teach the Shoah has been growing by leaps and bounds. We are excited to announce a major milestone in that growth: Teach the Shoah has convened its first official Board of Directors.
How Teach the Shoah Brought My Dad Back to Me
“There are two things they can never take from you — your intelligence, and your memories.” Aside from this admonition, I received precious little of my father’s story during his short lifetime. He never spoke outright of his experience as a child in Europe during...
Preserving the Memories of Holocaust Survivors
“I promise to keep your memory and tell your story.” One by one, eight storytellers stand in front of a Holocaust survivor in the library of Holocaust Museum LA in Los Angeles, CA and make this promise. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]
Candle & Chronicle Newsletter May 2023
We are in the season of remembrance. From Passover to Yom HaShoah to Yom HaZikaron, we consider our history. As we reflect, we must also give thought to how that history is being taught in our schools.
The Devil’s Confession
Every survivor had a Holocaust of their own.” The world learned this from the testimony of survivors at the trial of Adolph Eichmann. This history is dramatically retold in The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes, a new documentary by Yariv Mozer. [Redirects to L’Chaim Magazine]
Memorializing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Nathan Rapaport’s Monument
In the heart of the Yad Vashem memorial mountain stands a monument to the Warsaw ghetto uprising, created by sculptor Nathan Rapoport. An almost identical monument stands in the heart of what used to be the Warsaw ghetto in Poland.
Preserving the Memories of Holocaust Survivors
“I promise to keep your memory and tell your story.” One by one, eight storytellers stand in front of a Holocaust survivor in the library of Holocaust Museum LA in Los Angeles, CA and make this promise. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]
The Story of My Stories
Why do I tell Holocaust stories? For a long time, I could not say. I could talk about how these stories resonated with me, but I could not explain why. I could talk about the need to preserve this history and to learn from it, but not why I felt the need to tell these...
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