Updated to 2015
Yom HaShoah begins at sundown on Wednesday, April 15. You can lead young learners to a deeper understanding of this day with these powerful resources.
Inspire your learners
Paying Tribute to Those Who Perished. During a memorial service, Zak Kolar, 13 at the time, was suddenly awe-struck by the magnitude of the number 6,000,000. Six million Jews perished in the Holocaust and inspired Zak to do more than just give one short prayer.
“I wanted a way to remember Holocaust victims more individually, instead of as a faceless mass.” Inspired to keep the memory of those individuals alive, Zak went on to launch a web site dedicated to them, Each of Us Has a Name.
“It’s been said that one death is tragedy, but six million deaths is a statistic,” says Zak. “I want people to remember that every one of those six million was a person, just like you or me. They each had a life, but it was taken away.”
Pennies to Remember will show students how even with a penny you can make a difference. David Broide, a truly exceptional teen who collected pennies to represent the 1.5 million children murdered in the Holocaust, helped raise $15,000 to the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center to help build the first bilingual museum in the country by raising 1.5 Million pennies!
Use puzzles to teach values
Holidays, Values: Yom Ha'atma'ut & Yom Hashoah helps learners understand important words to instill values of Yom Hashoah.
Show learners the power of Speech
Tears & Testimony will help your students prepare for Yom HaShoah with videotaped oral histories from The Shoah Foundation. In this lesson, students will learn how to conduct their own oral history interview as a means for opening channels of communication between family generations.
You can find more resources for holidays and values in our Resource Libraries.
