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May 2023 Candle & Chronicle Newsletter
We are in the season of remembrance. From Passover to Yom HaShoah to Yom HaZikaron, we consider our history. As we reflect, we must also give thought to how that history is being taught in our schools.
The Devil’s Confession
Every survivor had a Holocaust of their own.” The world learned this from the testimony of survivors at the trial of Adolph Eichmann. This history is dramatically retold in The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes, a new documentary by Yariv Mozer. [Redirects to L’Chaim Magazine]
Memorializing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Nathan Rapaport’s Monument
In the heart of the Yad Vashem memorial mountain stands a monument to the Warsaw ghetto uprising, created by sculptor Nathan Rapoport. An almost identical monument stands in the heart of what used to be the Warsaw ghetto in Poland.
May 2023 Candle & Chronicle Newsletter
We are in the season of remembrance. From Passover to Yom HaShoah to Yom HaZikaron, we consider our history. As we reflect, we must also give thought to how that history is being taught in our schools.
The Devil’s Confession
Every survivor had a Holocaust of their own.” The world learned this from the testimony of survivors at the trial of Adolph Eichmann. This history is dramatically retold in The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes, a new documentary by Yariv Mozer. [Redirects to L’Chaim Magazine]
Memorializing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Nathan Rapaport’s Monument
In the heart of the Yad Vashem memorial mountain stands a monument to the Warsaw ghetto uprising, created by sculptor Nathan Rapoport. An almost identical monument stands in the heart of what used to be the Warsaw ghetto in Poland.
Using Storytelling to Personalize Holocaust Education in the Classroom
Learning to be a Holocaust storyteller means learning to take a primary source such as testimony, memoir, or diary, and to retell the story told in that testimony in a compelling way. [Originally published in the Jewish Educator.]
September 2023 Candle & Chronicle Newsletter
Teach the Shoah has been growing by leaps and bounds. We are excited to announce a major milestone in that growth: Teach the Shoah has convened its first official Board of Directors.
February 2023 Candle & Chronicle Newsletter
January was a series of firsts for us at Teach the Shoah. In this edition of the newsletter, we spotlight storyteller and Teach the Shoah founder Violet Neff-Helms.
November 2022 Candle & Chronicle Newsletter
Welcome to the first issue of “Candle and Chronicle,” our new Teach the Shoah newsletter. In this edition, we spotlight storyteller Leora Lazarus.
Broken Glass, Preserved Memory
Please don’t let them find out I’m Jewish. Please don’t let them find out I’m Jewish. It is November 10, 1938, and Margot Gunther (Jeremias) is riding the train to school. It’s an hour ride from her home in Hoffenheim, Germany to Heidelberg where her school is. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]
May 2023 Candle & Chronicle Newsletter
We are in the season of remembrance. From Passover to Yom HaShoah to Yom HaZikaron, we consider our history. As we reflect, we must also give thought to how that history is being taught in our schools.
The Devil’s Confession
Every survivor had a Holocaust of their own.” The world learned this from the testimony of survivors at the trial of Adolph Eichmann. This history is dramatically retold in The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes, a new documentary by Yariv Mozer. [Redirects to L’Chaim Magazine]
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