Yom Hashoah focus by grade

West End Synagogue Hebrew School

April 17, 2007
See http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/yomhashoah.html for
background info on YH. All students should know the name of the
holiday, that it comes after Passover, and why this date was
chosen, in addition to age-appropriate concepts below:

Grade Concepts Activities

3-4 Speaking up for • Read book “Terrible Things”
others who are • Read diary entries of children
different than you http://www1.yadvashem.org/education/lessonplan/e
nglish/January2006/january2006.html
(version A)
4-5 Speaking up for Righteous gentiles as heroes
others who are • Watch a clip from schindler’s list or read a
section from Anne Frank
different than you • Pick 2-3 righteous gentiles. What made these
(version B) people choose to risk their lives? What can we
learn from them? Could we do the same if
someone different from us was being
persecuted?
6 Warsaw Ghetto • “Meet” a person who was there (yes, this is
uprising Mike in costume) and have students fill out
worksheet entitled ‘yom hashoah whirlwind
The different scavenger hunt’
types of • Learn about different types of resistance
resistance (spiritual, armed, etc)
http://remember.org/guide/wit.root.wit.res.html
7 Compare world See “National Responses” section
http://remember.org/guide/wit.root.wit.res.html
immigration
policies during Bush’s Immigration Reform proposal:
the Holocaust to http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/immigration/
current refugee
US-Mexico Border Fence / Great Wall of Mexico
situation of
http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/systems/mex
people from ico-wall.htm
Sudan, Mexico,
and other places “Fences Work”: What America can learn from Israel's
West Bank security barrier
http://slate.msn.com/id/2143104/
(notice “related” articles at the bottom)