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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...
Learning to Tell by Listening
When I was very young, I learned that if I sat quietly, I could listen undisturbed to my mother and aunts telling stories from their childhoods. As I heard names I recognized and places I had seen, I sat fascinated at the revelations. People I knew as sweet old ladies...
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...
Learning to Tell by Listening
When I was very young, I learned that if I sat quietly, I could listen undisturbed to my mother and aunts telling stories from their childhoods. As I heard names I recognized and places I had seen, I sat fascinated at the revelations. People I knew as sweet old ladies...
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...
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 Newsletter February 2026
When storyteller Cathy Polakoff shared the story of Olympic swimmer Eva Szekely with a high school class recently, a student commented that she had always known the Holocaust was “a bad thing,” but only when she heard it through a storyteller’s voice did she truly feel its enormity. [Redirects to Mailchimp]
Memories and Stories That Continue
Growing up in Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), I was always mesmerized by a black and white portrait in my maternal grandparents’ bedroom. It showed a gorgeous young woman with her head tilted slightly toward her shoulder, her subtle smile brightening her face. This was...
Upstanders 101
One of the things I find most rewarding as an educator is when a student finally “gets it” – that moment when the eyes light up with understanding, the face animates, and the person becomes truly engaged in the lesson. This holds true whether I am teaching language...
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...
Learning to Tell by Listening
When I was very young, I learned that if I sat quietly, I could listen undisturbed to my mother and aunts telling stories from their childhoods. As I heard names I recognized and places I had seen, I sat fascinated at the revelations. People I knew as sweet old ladies...
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