Pre-WWII Jewish History

New Study Reveals Alarming Gaps in Holocaust Knowledge Among Young Adults Globally

By Ellen Resnek / Thursday, January 23, 2025 / Comments Off on New Study Reveals Alarming Gaps in Holocaust Knowledge Among Young Adults Globally

January 23, 2025 NEW YORK, NY—The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) has unveiled the first-ever Eight-Country Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Index, highlighting troubling gaps in Holocaust […]

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Holocaust Timeline Activity: Uncovering History through Critical Inquiry USHMM

By Ellen Resnek / Thursday, January 2, 2025 / Comments Off on Holocaust Timeline Activity: Uncovering History through Critical Inquiry USHMM

The Holocaust Timeline Activity immerses students in a multi-layered exploration of the Holocaust through a wall timeline that connects Nazi policies, World War II events, and individual experiences. Designed to […]

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CWB Holocaust Remembrance Day: 2025 Community Wide Teach In

By Ellen Resnek / Monday, December 2, 2024 / Comments Off on CWB Holocaust Remembrance Day: 2025 Community Wide Teach In

CWB Holocaust Remembrance Day: 2025 Community Wide Teach In As we approach 2025, marking 80 years since the conclusion of the Second World War and the Holocaust, we are reminded […]

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Sunday Salon Series: Violins of Hope: Strings of the Holocaust A Virtual Evening with Avshalom (Avshi) Weinstein

By Ellen Resnek / Tuesday, November 12, 2024 / Comments Off on Sunday Salon Series: Violins of Hope: Strings of the Holocaust A Virtual Evening with Avshalom (Avshi) Weinstein

The Holocaust Teacher Institute Is Proud to Announce The Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Foundation Holocaust/Jewish Themed Sunday Salon Series Violins of Hope: Strings of the Holocaust A Virtual Evening […]

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Traces of Memory: Mezuzahs and the Echoes of Jewish Life in Pre-War Poland

By Ellen Resnek / Friday, November 8, 2024 / Comments Off on Traces of Memory: Mezuzahs and the Echoes of Jewish Life in Pre-War Poland

Join us for an evocative exploration into the quiet, powerful traces of Jewish life in Poland before World War II, led by CWB Scholar Avi Ben-Hur, Helena Czernek and Aleksander […]

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KRISTALLNACHT RESOURCES

By Ellen Resnek / Saturday, October 12, 2024 / Comments Off on KRISTALLNACHT RESOURCES

KRISTALLNACHT RESOURCES Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, was a series of government-sanctioned attacks against the Jews of Germany and Austria on November 9-10, 1938. Ninety-six Jews were murdered […]

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Germany Close Up 2025

By Ellen Resnek / Tuesday, August 20, 2024 / Comments Off on Germany Close Up 2025
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Poland Personally 2025

By Ellen Resnek / Tuesday, August 20, 2024 / Comments Off on Poland Personally 2025
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Germany Close Up prompts questions about country’s past and future

By Ellen Resnek / Tuesday, August 13, 2024 / Comments Off on Germany Close Up prompts questions about country’s past and future

Seminar takes young North American Jewish leaders to Germany to ask and teach By Adam Reinherz READ THE STORY HERE

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Destroy. Rename. Or remove. By Josh Leib 

By Ellen Resnek / Friday, August 2, 2024 / Comments Off on Destroy. Rename. Or remove. By Josh Leib 

Destroy. Rename. Or remove. In America, memorializing difficult parts of our past falls into three categories. Three categories fail to represent the intricacies that the memorial likely represents. A major […]

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