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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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”
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...