Remembrance Ideas for Yom HaShoah
Activities
Paint rocks with loving messages to leave at a Holocaust memorial.
Join a 6 million step walk.
Read an age appropriate story as a family and discuss. (see list)
Visit a Holocaust museum.
Create your own candle to light in memory of the 6 million (can use crayons)
Cookbooks
Sample some recipes from a survivors cookbook. Discuss the importance of certain dishes to your family.
Holocaust Survivor Cookbook; Collected From Around the World by Joanne Caras
Miracles and Meals The Holocaust Survivor Cookbooks by Joanne Cars
Food, Hope & Resilience: Authentic Recipes and Remarkable Stories from Holocaust Survivors by June Hersh
Honey Cake & Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors
Recipes Remembered: A Celebration of Survival by Hersh, June Feiss
Art
Study art made during the Holocaust.
How do these expressions often of great pain differ? Do they affect you in different ways, even though they are inspired by the same tragedy?
More Activites
Read the names of the men, women, and children killed during the Holocaust as a symbolic and personal way of remembering these individuals. (Get list.)
Light a yizkor candle that has the name and story of a victim of the Shoah. Glimpse into the life of a person by reading about their life on your candle label AND by scanning the QR code, accessing more information about their life story. Order candles
Create a Remembrance Service
Themes:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s themes - features a video, poster sets, presentations, and other resources you can use to enrich your event.
Yad Vashem- Be sure to look at the “related” section.
Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust: Marking 80 Years Since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Transports to Extinction: The Transportation of the Jews During the Holocaust
Until the Very Last Jew: Eighty Years Since the Onset of Mass Annihilation
Rescue by Jews during the Holocaust: Solidarity in a Disintegrating World
The War Within the War: the Struggle of the Jews to Survive During the Holocaust
70 Years of Remembering and Building: Holocaust Survivors and the State of Israel
Restoring Their Identities: The Fate of the Individual During the Holocaust
The Anguish of Liberation and the Return to Life: Seventy Years Since the End of WWII
Jews "On the Edge". 1944: Between Annihilation and Liberation
Defiance and Rebellion during the Holocaust. 70 Years Since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Fragments of Memory: The Faces behind the Documents, Artifacts and Photographs
Holocaust Survivors in Israel: 60 Years Since the Establishment of the State
Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust: Sixty Years Since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Their Last Voice: Letters and Testaments from Jews in the Holocaust
Tragedy to survival
Never Again
Holocaust Cantata: Songs from the Camps - An emotional, musical journey based on the songs and letters written by Nazi concentration camp prisoners. The cantata was composed and conducted by Donald McCullough. It stands as a choral tribute to the victims and survivors of the Holocaust.
Light 6 yahrzeit candles (one by survivors, liberators, righteous gentile, children, hidden, future generation)
Have survivors enter sanctuary with their families and stop at the front to light a yahrzeit candle.