1. Part 1 — Anti-Judaism/Anti-Semitism
a. Historical Background: Abraham to the Shoah
b. Specific German socio-political-economic history prior to 1931
c. Racism, discrimination, and hatred unchecked can and will lead to genocide.
d. When confronted by antisemitism and racism: Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Lesson Plans
Part 2 — The Shoah: A systematically planned Genocide as a Socio-Political-Economic
Weapon.
a. Use of local resources
a. Use of local resources
b. Videos
c. Readings
d. Holocaust Centers
e. Interviews
2. (Optional) Enroll each pre-Bar/Bat Mitzvah student, (2 years before their B'nai
Mitzvot), into
the Holocaust B'nai Mitzvah Project's Remember Us
program: http://www.remember-us.org/
3. (Optional) Enroll each pre-Bar/Bat Mitzvah student, (18 months before their B'nai Mitzvot), into the ZACHOR Holocaust Foundation Curriculum: https://www.zachorfoundation.org/
4. Escape From the Holocaust
— Students will be asked to keep a journal/diary to track their page
choices, and
any resultant experiential
thoughts and emotions they might have noted.
5. At the Bat/Bar Mitzvah
a. In the service, when the B'nai Mitzvah presentations are given, a
זָכוֹר (Zachor) pin will be presented to each new B'nai Mitzvah.
b. (Optional) An empty chair, with the name of a now-remembered Jewish child (1 of
1.8 million exterminated), who did not live to have their B'nai Mitzvah; and with a folded Tallit draped
over the chairback waiting.
c. (Optional) The new B'nai Mitzvah leads the Congregation in the recitation of
the Kaddish, as an adult Jew.