Miriam was born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia. Miriam’s father at the time was studying to become a rabbi to follow in his father’s footsteps. But everything changed one evening, when the police came to her house and arrested him. He was sent to a labor camp in Hungary, where he managed to escape from. Back at his house, he managed to convince her wife that the whole family needed to flee as soon as possible. In 1941 the long journey through Slovakia then to Portugal began. After waiting several months in Lisbon, they finally boarded a ship to New York.

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. 
• Understand the roles of rescuers, bystanders, and upstanders during the Holocaust.

• Guidelines for Teaching About the Holocaust — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (ushmm.org):

  https://www.ushmm.org/teach/fundamentals/age-appropriateness

• Horrors of Auschwitz: The Numbers Behind WWII’s Deadliest Concentration Camp:
  https://www.history.com/news/auschwitz-concentration-camp-numbers

• Timeline 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