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Professional Development: Navigating the New Curriculum

With the rollout of the new Grade 6 curriculum’s inclusion of Holocaust education, school boards and teachers across Ontario have been searching for guidance from local organizations to help them navigate the complex subject matter.

Dispatches from Winnipeg

Friday, April 27 Our team’s first stop was for a school presentation. With 120 middle and high school students in attendance,...

Remembrance Is the Secret to Redemption, and Other Lessons Learned at SXSW 2018

Every hour of the day during the week of March 12–18, the SXSW schedule was brimming with compelling sessions to attend....

Hidden Children, Identity and the Holocaust: Surviving in the Margin of the Catastrophe

We know that teachers want to provide in-depth and engaging units on the Holocaust but might be unsure where to begin. How do...

From Fragment to Whole

In late 2014, the Azrieli Foundation’s Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program received an extremely important submission — a...

Cholent: Tasting the Past

The Rohatiner extended family before the war. Bronia (back row, fifth from the left) is standing beside her sister, Sarah....

Understanding What Genocide Really Means

Defining Genocide Article II of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide...