Rochelle Wilner President	Frank Dimant Chief Executive Officer	Prof. Stephen Scheinberg National Chair

Yom ha-Shoah Holocaust Memorial Day
Teacher’s Guide

Contents

Introduction

• Forward — Rochelle Wilner, B’nai Brith Canada
• Greetings — Ted Chudleigh, MPP Halton
• Bill 66 — An Act to Proclaim Holocaust Memorial Day — Yom ha-Shoah — in Ontario
• Holocaust Memorial Day Act
• The Jewish Calendar

Commemorative Programs

• Overview
• Suggested Service of Remembrance
• Suggested Opening Remarks
• “Unto Every Person There Is a Name”
• “I Never Saw Another Butterfly”

Selected Learning Opportunities

• Primary and Junior Divisions
• The U.N. Declaration of the Rights of the Child
• Grades 7 and up and Senior Division
  HUMAN RIGHTS — First-person Accounts of the Holocaust
  RESISTANCE — First-person Accounts of the Holocaust
  CHOICES — First-person Accounts of the Holocaust
• Senior Division
  Being Different
  Individual Responsibility
• Senior Division
  Segregation
  Classification of Victims
  Eugenics
  Nazi Euthanasia Programme
  Kindertransports
• Senior Division
  Warsaw Ghetto
  Auschwitz-Birkenau
  Jewish Resistance
  Bosnian Refugees
  Genocide in Rwanda
• Selected Articles from the United Nations’ Convention on Genocide (1948)

Background Information On The Holocaust

• Teaching About the Holocaust — Shoah
• FAQS About the Holocaust — Shoah
• Children in the Holocaust
• The History — An Historical Summary

Resources

• Websites
• Annotated Bibliography
• Annotated Videography
• Annotated Filmography
• League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada Library Resources
• Holocaust Memorial Day Acts

Appendices

• Combatting Racism and Hate in Canada Today: Lessons of the Holocaust
• Glossary of Terms
• Holocaust Memorial Day Acts
• Connecting with the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada
• "Holocaust And Hope" Education Program

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