Remembering the Holocaust

Every year on January 27, we honor the six million Jewish and other victims that lost their lives in the Holocaust. International Holocaust Remembrance Day acts as a solemn reminder for the tragedies that resulted from Nazism and creates an opportunity to educate the public in order to prevent these events from reoccurring.

Many organizations are dedicated to commemorating the lives lost, for example, the Vermont Holocaust Memorial, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Yad Vashem (The World Holocaust Rememberance Center).

The Vermont Holocaust Memorial is the newest out of these resources. This website is dedicated to “Honoring Lives Lost and Stories of Survival. You can find more information on current projects and events happening in Vermont at: https://www.holocaustmemorial-vt.org/events

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum highlights the dangers of ignoring hate and how educating the public about hate can be a major influence on preventing genocides from reoccurring. More information can be found here: https://www.ushmm.org/

Another website raising awareness on the travesties that took place inside the Holocaust is the IRemember Wall created by Yad Vashem (The World Holocaust Rememberance Center). This interactive website allows you to enter a name and matches it to the name of a Holocaust victim. Additional information can be found here: https://iremember.yadvashem.org/?p=680&&utm_source=zoom&utm_medium=slider&utm_campaign=iremember-2022&utm_content=english-general

Currently 9th Grade students are studying the Holocaust in their English and Modern World classes and even had the opportunity to speak with Holocaust Survivor Fay Malkin who was hidden, along with 12 other Jewish people, by a Polish Catholic woman in a hayloft for two years. There were 6,000 Jewish people in their community before the war. Only 30 of them survived.

As a society, let's not forget the millions of lives lost to hate and ignorance. It is our job to prevent these events from reoccurring.