Rena
About Course
Rena lives in Jerusalem, Israel, but was born in Piotrków, Poland in 1935 where about 20% of the residents were Jewish. She was protected by several women who she calls her mothers; none of her biological family survived the Holocaust.
Her adoptive mother gave her the name and birthday of her own deceased daughter.
In this course you will learn to:
- Define the Holocaust as the planned and systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945.
- Define antisemitism as prejudice against or hatred of Jewish people.
- Recognize the Holocaust as history’s most extreme example of antisemitism.
- Draw parallels between the past and the present to understand why we must study history.
- Arm themselves with facts so that when they are confronted with Holocaust denial, they can speak out.
Before You Begin Teaching about the Holocaust:
Please refer to this guide from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for important pedagogical information for all teachers of Holocaust education:
- Guidelines for Teaching About the Holocaust — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (ushmm.org):
Horrors of Auschwitz: The Numbers Behind WWII’s Deadliest Concentration Camp:
https://www.history.com/news/auschwitz-concentration-camp-numbersTimeline of major events that occurred before, during, and immediately after the Holocaust:
https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/resource-center/timeline.html- Horrors of Auschwitz: The Numbers Behind WWII’s Deadliest Concentration Camp:
https://www.history.com/news/auschwitz-concentration-camp-numbers
Course Content
Rena’s Testimony
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