Joseph Weismann’s story is remembered for Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) 2020. Joseph Weismann – After the Roundup Background On the nights of July 16 and 17, 1942, French police rounded up eleven-year-old Joseph Weismann, his family, and 13,000 other Jews. After being held for five days in appalling conditions in the Velodrome d’Hiver stadium,…
After the Roundup Graphic Novel Escape After the Roundup INTRO LETTER to Remember.org: “During the night of July 16-17, 1942, twelve thousand eight hundred forty-four Jewish men, women, and children were rounded up by the French police in Paris and the surrounding area. 8,160 of them, including 4,115 children, were taken to the Vélodrome…
As the world commemorates the Liberation of Auschwitz after 75 years, strange things are happening. At Remember.org we focus on people’s history, not the political games or storytelling surrounding the events at Auschwitz, especially in recent years. In one of the original interviews for Remember.org, Yehuda Bauer of Hebrew University at that time shared: Liberation…
Forever Alert German Child Survivors in Action Before 1945 and Beyond 2019 by Philipp Sonntag A new book, published by Child Survivors Germany in October 2019. Publisher Beggerow in Berlin, 240 pages; ISBN 987-3-936103-75-5, 16.- €, see Email – phil.sonntag@t-online.de As children, we survived the Holocaust. Now, at over 80 or even 90 years-old,…
When looking for a Holocaust Curriculum for middle school and high school, the following is shared from: Holocaust Curriculum for Middle School for Human Rights and Genocide Published for the California State Board of Education Part 1 of the Holocaust Curriculum for K-6th Grade. Grade Seven 7.2 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and…