Trauma-Informed Teaching and the Holocaust
Canadian students come from diverse backgrounds and bring a wide range of experiences into our classrooms. When teaching about heavy subjects like the Holocaust, it is important that we do so with a trauma-informed approach to best support all of our students.
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Too Many Goodbyes: The Diaries Of Susan Garfield
Read an excerpt of Susan Garfield's memoir, “Too Many Goodbyes: The Diaries of Susan Garfield”
Confronting Devastation: Memoirs of Holocaust Survivors from Hungary
From idyllic pre-war life to forced labour battalions, ghettos and camps, and persecution and hiding in Budapest, the authors...
The High Holidays Engraved in Memory
Holidays for Love and Family: For Elsa Thon, the High Holidays remind her of the first time her parents met in 1913. In...
Always Remember Who You Are
Anita with her parents, Edzia and Fisko. Synowódzko Wyżne, Poland, 1937. Miraculous EscapeWe didn’t know where my...
In Search of Light
The Abel family after the war. From left to right: Martha's sister, Eta, her mother, Sari, her father, Ödön, and Martha. Cluj,...
Stories of Pesach: Holocaust Survivors Remember
Pesach, or Passover in English, often figures prominently in the stories of authors who survived the Holocaust as children....