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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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...