Summer might be a break for students, but as an educator, I know teachers are busy enhancing their skills and knowledge to improve their curriculum and students’ overall experience in their classrooms. As you contemplate lesson plans for the upcoming year, will you be planning a unit or lesson about the Holocaust? Do you feel you have enough knowledge about the topic to teach it well? How will you introduce your students to that history and experiences? What readings and resources will you use? What approach will you take with this sensitive topic?

100 Days to Inspire Respect

Saba discusses the role and expectations of women in the Orthodox Jewish community.

100 Days to Inspire Respect

Renee Firestone is a Holocaust survivor who was interviewed by USC Shoah Foundation and went on to become an interviewer herself. She discusses the interviewing process and describes how listening to testimony is an emotional experience.

Holocaust survivor Arthur Spindler elaborates on the misconceptions that many people had of Jewish people during the time. Jewish people were illustrated as scary-evil people, that were responsible for the issues in society.

Tutsi Survivor Esperance Kaligirwa recants how her father needed to bribe the police in order to not be arrested. Despite, having an all the necessary documentation her father still was forced to pay to ensure that him and his family could travel safely.

As a young Latino, store employees pretending to be doing a job as they watch me shop is almost expected. The feeling of walking into a Walgreens and an employee looking daggers into you, as if you are guilty just for being who you are never gets old.

100 Days to Inspire Respect

Elizabeth recalls a peaceful protest in a nearby town that turned violent, giving her the opportunity to protest against police brutality in Washington.

100 Days to Inspire Respect

Daniel recounts how his male gender led to his Jewish identity being exposed by Nazis while he pretended to be an altar boy at a Catholic orphanage in Belgium.