How to Talk to Your Kids About Yom Hashoah
Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom Hashoah, begins the evening of this Sunday, April 7th. It’s hard enough for adults to grapple with the immense, inexplicable horror of the Holocaust, and can be harder...
View ArticleHow I’m Teaching My Sons About the Holocaust
A good friend of mine recently asked me when she should tell her son about the Holocaust. She is not Jewish, she homeschools her son, and he is 11 years old. She was asking me because she knows I grew...
View ArticleThe Holocaust, Through the Stories of my Grandmother
Today is Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. For more on talking to your kids about the Holocaust, click here. I was probably in the second or third grade when I asked my mother what a swastika...
View ArticleWhat I Won’t Teach My Kids About The Holocaust
In 1938, my grandfather escaped Austria on the kindertransport. He was sent to England, where he lived with a family who sponsored him. His parents were sent to the Isle of Wight, where they were...
View ArticleThis Yom Hashoah, Hoping Against All Odds
“Do you believe another Holocaust can happen?” When I heard this question as a 7th grader, I remember reacting with shock: “Of course not! The world would never let it happen again!” Here we are in...
View ArticleIsrael Pauses for Holocaust Remembrance Day–VIDEO
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. All around the world, people are gathering together to remember the tragic and untimely deaths of 6 million Jews at the hands of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. In...
View ArticleThis Photo of a Baby with Her Holocaust Survivor Great-Grandfather is Amazing
I can’t sleep. And it’s not because my 7-month-old baby is keeping me awake. In less than 48 hours time, an image of my oldest child with her great-grandfather– my grandfather–has been seen by 9,000...
View ArticleDo Your Kids Have Holocaust Survivor Great-Grandparents? Share Your Photos
I love this photo. It’s evidence of the only meeting between my first child, A, and my maternal grandmother, my Bobie Celia. A, her third great-grandchild, was 6 weeks old at the time, and he clearly...
View ArticleThat Time My Daughter Perfectly Summed Up the Holocaust in One Sentence
My daughter and I talked about the Holocaust tonight after dinner. “Do you know what Shoah means?” I asked. “Disaster. Catastrophe,” she said. They’re learning about it in school—as most Jewish kids in...
View ArticleSee These Incredible Photos of Kids with Holocaust Survivor Great Grandparents
As a way to honor Holocaust Remembrance Day, which begins at sundown tonight, we asked our readers to share photographs of their families with their relatives who survived the Holocaust. The...
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