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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]
Do the voices of the Nazis have a place in Holocaust education?
The words of the Nazis show us how ordinary people can become psychopathic killers. Can we use this evidence to teach about the perpetrators of the Holocaust without legitimizing their beliefs? [redirects to the Times of Israel]
Educating a Crowd
At the beginning of 2025, we saw a drastic switch in policy and national attitude. As expected with the inauguration of a new president, we were attempting to adjust. As the changes became more intense, I found myself participating where I could. I attended a protest...
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]
Do the voices of the Nazis have a place in Holocaust education?
The words of the Nazis show us how ordinary people can become psychopathic killers. Can we use this evidence to teach about the perpetrators of the Holocaust without legitimizing their beliefs? [redirects to the Times of Israel]
Educating a Crowd
At the beginning of 2025, we saw a drastic switch in policy and national attitude. As expected with the inauguration of a new president, we were attempting to adjust. As the changes became more intense, I found myself participating where I could. I attended a protest...
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 and Chronicle Newsletter January 2026
“That was the most powerful Holocaust program I’ve ever attended.” A gentleman who attended one of our in-person programs in December sent this comment to Tanya, who organized the program. You can’t ask for better feedback than that. [Redirects to Mailchimp]
To be Treated as an Equal
My father was born in Essen, Germany in 1926. He moved to Czechoslovakia in 1933 with his parents and sister to escape Nazi rule. Unfortunately, the "escape" only lasted until 1939 when Germans invaded Czechoslovakia. Luckily, my grandfather was on a business trip to...
An Audience of One
Hospitals are not usually known for being ideal performance venues. Yet, there I was, waiting to be taken to surgery, telling one of my Holocaust stories. The oddest part, though, was the reaction I received; it was perhaps the best one I have ever gotten. As I lay...
Candle and Chronicle Newsletter October 2025
L’Shanah Tovah! Happy New Year to you all! We could not be prouder of what we have accomplished this year or more excited about what we have planned for the next year. We are so grateful for the support and appreciations we have received from you throughout the year. Thank you for joining us on this journey. [Redirects to Mailchimp]
Innocent Words, Deadly Meanings: How Language Enabled the Holocaust
“Words can be like tiny doses of arsenic: they are swallowed unnoticed, yet they accumulate their poison over time.”[1] In the early 1930s, Victor Klemperer noticed a change in how words were being used in Germany. Klemperer was a professor of linguistics at the...
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]
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