HolocaustMemorialDay

Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir | Ruth Reichl

This might be the most eclectic pile of books ever. Can you tell my school had a book fair this week? And that my library holds came in (always all at once🙄🤷🏻‍♀️). I‘m definitely ready for Shabbos!

This week has been trying and difficult for many reasons. But the hardest has been #yomhashoah also known as #holocaustmemorialday I‘m really feeling so emotional about it in a way I haven‘t in a while. It‘s hurting my heart. 💔🖤 (more in comments)

ElishaLovesBooks Part of it is because I‘m relatively new to #instagram and the images are just surrounding me everywhere. Part of it is because I‘m teaching The Diary of Anne Frank right now to a diverse group of 7th graders. And every year that goes by, we‘re all farther and farther removed. And I can see it in the kids. And I worry I‘m not doing enough to help them understand. 5y

ElishaLovesBooks Teaching is such a huge responsibility. Education is where it all starts. And I hope and pray I‘m doing enough. And finally, books are where I always turn for comfort. They will always be here. There will always be more to learn. 📚 (edited) 5y

cobwebmoth ❤ 5y

Crazeedi 💔 5y

Erofan 💔 5y

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LeePeckover

Maus: A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History/Here My Troubles Began/Boxed | Art Spiegelman

Book recommendations for #HolocaustMemorialDay

Emilymdxn Thank you for this post! I‘ve been trying to google lists like this today and for some reason keep ending up in lists of children‘s books (obviously also important but not exactly what I‘m looking for) 5y

LeePeckover @Emilymdxn I strongly recommend This Way for the Gas to read along with Night. Wiesel describes the horrors and considers that people who suffered the most were people in the line of work Borowski did himself. Further made tragic by the fact Burowski later killed himself, by gas. 5y

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LeePeckover

Night | Elie Wiesel

It's #HolocaustMemorialDay today. I strongly recommend Night by Elie Wiesel, as well as The Choice by Edith Eger.
For a graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman.
There are so many powerful accounts of the holocaust, and it remains the biggest man made tragedy in history. One which should never be forgotten.

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Emilymdxn

Holocaust Commemoration: Wannsee Conference, List of Holocaust Memorials and Museums, Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust | Source Wikipedia

Thinking on #holocaustmemorialday about how reading, writing and sharing stories even a long time afterwards is an important part of bearing witness when terrible things happen, and helping stop them ever happening again.

I read a news story today saying 1/20 British people don‘t think the Holocaust actually happened. Don‘t even have the words to respond to that rn.

Photo from my visit to the Warsaw ghetto wall recently.

TrishB It affected me in the same way too 💔 5y

Cinfhen 😢💔#WeRemember (edited) 5y

julesG I did research in one of the concentration camps. I had my hands on case files. I cannot forget this, ever. I cannot make it unread. And I still feel disturbed just typing this. It is a terrible chapter in the history of my country. People saying it never happened enrage me. 5y

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Christine11 I was so shocked to read that today too. It makes no sense to me that there are so many people who can deny it happened 😔 5y

Itchyfeetreader I have seen this report quoted a few times today. I does not diminish my shock, confusion and sadness. 5y

Weaponxgirl Anyone who thinks that needs to be taken to all the historical sites and made to sit and watch survivor testimony for 24 hours at least. That breaks my 💔 5y

youneverarrived That‘s so true. And how do some people not believe it happened?! 😔💔 5y

Emilymdxn @TrishB it‘s always a deeply affecting day but I didn‘t realise how much denial there was until today - I thought it was just nutty conspiracy theorists 5y

Emilymdxn @Cinfhen I haven‘t seen that hashtag before but I really like it 5y

Emilymdxn @julesG that sounds like such an intense experience, I‘m impressed that you did that. I would like to go to aushwitz one day and see it with my own eyes. I hope that collective desire to remember, empathise and educate can overcome denial and new fascism, I really hope so. 5y

Emilymdxn @Christine11 me too I really want to read more research on where these beliefs come from as I just dont understand it 5y

Emilymdxn @Itchyfeetreader it makes an intense, horrible day even worse you‘re absolutely right. I keep thinking people like that can‘t shock me anymore but I‘m always wrong 5y

Emilymdxn @Weaponxgirl I have no idea how our education system failed this much, it horrified me 5y

Emilymdxn @youneverarrived I just don‘t understand it, I hope more research comes out on how this happened 5y

TrishB I think people choose not to believe. It‘s definitely not the education system this time, unless they literally didn‘t go to school. Both my kids did a lot of work on the Holocaust, from lots of perspectives. This is nasty, horrible people choosing. 5y

Cinfhen https://wjc.weremember.info/ Info about the #WeRemember campaign 💕 5y

Emilymdxn @TrishB that‘s interesting, as I didn‘t study a word on the holocaust at school really - we did the rise of nazism but nothing much about what Hitler did once he was in power, so I thought maybe other schools were like that, but it‘s an even more depressing thought if people have been educated about it 5y

Emilymdxn @Cinfhen thank you for sending that‘s really interesting I wish I‘d come across it earlier! 5y

Cinfhen Pleasure!!! I only know because my son‘s HS participated last year and this year for the #WeRemember campaign (edited) 5y

TrishB Thanks Cindy ❤️ will use on fb post! @Cinfhen 5y

TrishB My daughter was actually the first to say something about the news report today. She said she‘s done it every year from 11-16. In history, politics, RE and PSHE. 5y

Cinfhen You‘re wonderful 😘thank you @TrishB 5y

TrishB @cinfhen 😘 Alice Hoffman put a lovely post up too on fb x 5y

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Libby1

A Time to Speak | Helen Lewis

Today, on #HolocaustMemorialDay , I decided to begin this memoir by concentration camp survivor Helen Lewis.

Helen grew up in what was then Czechoslovakia, where she studied philosophy and dance. After surviving the horrors of #Auschwitz she moved to Belfast, #NorthernIreland , and founded a dance group.

This is her story.

#WeWillRememberThem
#NeverForget

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Missusb

Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz | Michael Bornstein, Debbie Bornstein Holinstat

Not sure I am going to make it all the way through this traumatic yet inspiring read. It's important that these stories are heard. The writing is dispassionate yet powerful. #holocaustmemorialday #reminder

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mrp27

The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition | Anne Frank

#holocaustmemorialday #neveragain

Important reads, among many others. Let us not forget our past so we don't make the same mistakes.

tpixie Great important reads 7y

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