Brisbane Catholic Education has facilitated the staging of an exhibition on the Holocaust to help school students realise the importance of good people standing up in the face of bad situations. "Courage to Care", an initiative of the not-for-profit Jewish community organisation B'nai B'rith aims to educate visitors to understand the role of bullies, bystanders and victims using stories of the Holocaust. For full story click here.
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Students interview Holocaust survivors
Eighth-grader Benjamin Barth of Teaneck used to think that all Jews affected by the Holocaust were in either ghettos or concentration camps. Now, as a result of his participation in the oral history film project “Names, Not Numbers,” he understands much more about the Shoah. “It’s not just a single story of Jews in ghettos and concentration camps,” said Benjamin, who is a student at the Moriah School in Englewood. “There are other aspects, like people resisting all over Europe.” For full story click here.
Holograms tell Holocaust stories
For 18 months, a group led by USC's Shoah Foundation has been creating three-dimensional holograms of nearly a dozen people who survived Nazi Germany's systematic extermination of six million Jews during World War II, so the stories can endure. For full story click here.