Many schools and community organizations create programs to observe the gravity of the Holocaust and to educate and create awareness among future generations. Creating compelling programming for schools can pose a challenge, especially for children in younger grades who have not yet learned about the magnitude of the Holocaust. Children's picture books can be important tools for teaching about the Holocaust. Our books give children a first glimpse at history through unique lenses--modern cave exploration, collecting paper clips, a journey into space, and even from through perspective of a neighborhood cat.
As we mourn the deaths of those in the Tree of Life Synagogue
tragedy, it’s comforting to know that there are many good people in the world
who stand with us. November 9 will mark the 20th anniversary of the
Paper Clips Project in Whitwell, Tennessee, in which the teachers and students
of this small rural community undertook to understand the magnitude of the
death of the six million Jews who died in the Shoah. Our book, “Six Million
Paper Clips,” which documents this project, continues to sell well throughout
the world. Here are the remarks by our good friends and authors Peter Schroeder
and Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand, which will be read at the 20th
anniversary event.
Today is Yom Hashoah, a day commemorating those who perished in the Holocaust and honoring those who survived. Today’s news sites carried a story about a recent survey commissioned by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. According to the study, 41 percent of Americans —-and 66 percent of millennials—- did not know what Auschwitz was.
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