Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day

Educational Materials for Holocaust Remembrance Day 2009

The central theme for Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day 2009 is “Children in the Holocaust”. Some one and a half million children were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust. In those years, children suffered from persecution, hunger and disease. In many cases, their family members and loved ones were abducted and murdered, robbing children of their childhood. For them, the tragic separation from their loving family made for a deep lifelong wound. Their sense of personal security, which lay in the family unit and the community, was severely shaken and often crumbled entirely. Despite their young age, many children were forced to provide for their family and effectively raise their siblings on their own.

This website includes a selection of educational materials – lesson plans, ceremonies, learning environments, documents, interviews and more – focusing on this subject.

Featured Items
"Teaching the Legacy" - e-Newsletter for Holocaust Educators   "And Despite it All, I Am Alive" - Educational Journey Beyond the Image     "May Your Memory Be Love" - The Story of Ovadia Baruch   Information on Key Holocaust - Related Terms, Places and Figures   The Bericha: Survivors' Journey Towards a New Life - animated exhibition and educational material

Lesson Plans		Ceremonies
For Elementary Students “Until Then I Had Only Read about These    Things in Books..” – The Story of Uri Orlev I Wanted to Fly Like a Butterfly For Middle School Students Compassion within the Ghetto Walls "A Childhood Ensnared in Tears" - Creative Use of Holocaust Imagery in the Classroom For High School Students Righteous among the Nations - Case   Studies of Two Women: Miep Gies and   Bep Voskuijl Children in the Holocaust The Lives of Jewish Children in the Holocaust as   Reflected in Their Diaries		For Middle School Students “Shattered and Broken” – 70 Years since the   Kristallnacht Pogrom For High School Students "Dear Diary, I Don't Want to Die" Auschwitz: The Final Stop

Recent Publications

“Rutka’s Diary: January-April 1943” – Diary by 14-year-old Rutka Laskier

Exhibitions

“A Time to Heal” - The Story of the Children's Home in Otwock, Poland
“No Child’s Play”
Youth Groups in the lodz Ghetto
“Until the Last Jew.. Until the Last Name”

Artifacts

Children in the Holocaust - From the Museum Artifacts Collection

Documents

An Underground Publication on the Jewish Youth
“Jewish Children on the Aryan Side” - From Emmanuel Ringelblum's Historical Essay –‘Polish-Jewish
  Relations During the Second World War’

Letters & Diaries

Hannah-Helene Goldberg's Last Letters
From Josef Zelkowicz’s Diary - the Hardships of Children in the Lodz Ghetto
From Stanislaw Adler’s Diary - Janusz Korczak and his Work with Children

Interviews

“In the Other Childhood”- Interview With Chava Wolf
“Being Together Certainly Saved Me” – Interview with Hedi Solzbach
“This is Not the Story of Someone Else” - Interview with Miriam Ron

Learning Environments

"And Despite it All, I Am Alive" - Educational Journey Beyond the Image
Children in the Ghetto - Interactive Website for Children
The Bericha: Survivors' Journey Towards a New Life - animated exhibition and educational material

Book Reviews

A Teenager in Hitler’s Death Camps - Benny Grunfeld
The King Of Children - A Biography Of Janusz Korczak - Betty Jean Lifton
The Underground Reporters - Kathy Kacer
Children Who Survived the Final Solution - Peter Tarjan (Ed.)
Hidden from the Holocaust: Stories of Resilient Children Who Survived and Thrived - Kerry Bluglass

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