When I teach Jewish children about the Shoah - the Holocaust - on Yom HaShoah, I begin and end with Jewish life. From what I’ve learned about trauma informed teaching and intergenerational healing, it is critical that our remembering and our knowing is held by our dynamic and vibrant and complex and layered and LIVED Jewish lives. This is what that looked like last night.
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“Did you know that the clock over Buchenwald doesn’t count time?” asks Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, quietly. He hands me a yellow candle.
“I didn’t,” I murmur. “Not until just now.”
This reflection written for the University of Saint Thomas Campus Ministry Newsletter
Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, begins Monday April 20 and continues through sundown Tuesday April 21, 2020. At a time when traditionally we would come together as a community to honor our local survivors and remember those who perished, we will gather virtually to commemorate Yom HaShoah and mark the 75th anniversary of liberation and the end of the Holocaust.
