1. a) What is Yom HaShoah? (When is it? What is its purpose? Where is it observed?)

b) How does International Holocaust Remembrance Day differ?

2. List the events that take place in Israel each year on Yom HaShoah.

3. a) For how many minutes does Israel come to a standstill on Yom Hashoah?
b) Watch the videos under “Resources” below. How does this commemoration inspire you?

4. a) How many Jewish people were murdered by the Nazis during WWII?
b) Look through some of the links under “Resources” below (links are below the videos). Visit Yad Vashem’s testimonies page and youtube page and check out some of the survivors’ stories.
Why do you think it is vital for Holocaust Remembrance Day to be commemorated in the U.S. and around the world?

5. According to a survey conducted in 2020,* nearly two-thirds of Americans between 18 and 39 do not know that 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. Among millennials and Gen Z, 1 in 10 believes it was the Jews who caused the Holocaust. One in 4 says the Holocaust is a myth, and 1 in 8 claims to have never heard of the Holocaust. (*survey conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany)

a) What should schools do to educate their students about the Holocaust?
b) Yom Hashoah 2021 was not a big story in American news outlets. Why do you think this is so?
c) How should publishers and editors in every media organization fulfill their responsibility to make sure we never forget?