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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Remembering Kristallnacht, Eighty Years Later
Remembering Kristallnacht through the Stories of SurvivorsOur authors testify to the rising persecutions that preceded...
Preview: Flights of Spirit
Children working in an ORT carpentry workshop in the Kovno ghetto. Elly Gotz is in the centre. Syringes on a TrayThe most...
Dispatches from Winnipeg
Friday, April 27Our 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. Every...
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...