80-Year Holiday From History. It’s Over.
We’ve had an 80-year holiday from history — a brief pause in the centuries-long cycle of exclusion, scapegoating and violence. That holiday is now over.As the school year wraps up, and with 2025 marking 80 years since the end of World War II, it’s time to ask hard questions about what we’re teaching — and what we’re missing.
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Seeing History: A Reflection on In the Hour of Fate and Danger by Ferenc Andai
As the child of a Holocaust survivor, John Lorinc has tried to research a wartime experience his father couldn’t share.
A Woman's Shoes
A story about shoes: It was Holocaust Education Week, 2019, and I accompanied Judy Cohen, the 91-year-old survivor whose memoir I was then immersed in — shifting passages, recasting sentences, checking dates and historical data — to a talk she was giving at York University.
How Teachers Teach the Holocaust: Survey Findings
Since its inception, the Azrieli Foundation's Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program has made education a central part of its mission.
Kol Nidre in Auschwitz
In her memoir, A Cry in Unison, Holocaust survivor, educator and human rights activist Judy Weissenberg Cohen tells the story of how she and her “camp sisters” in Auschwitz-Birkenau observed Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
New Online Activity: Liberation Through the Eyes of a Hidden Child
In this activity, students will use testimony to learn about Claire Baum's experiences in hiding during the Holocaust, her moment of liberation and her life after liberation.
Too Many Goodbyes: The Diaries Of Susan Garfield
Read an excerpt of Susan Garfield's memoir, “Too Many Goodbyes: The Diaries of Susan Garfield”