mobanmarketLAWRENCE, NY — Eighth graders at the Brandeis Hebrew Academy will honor the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust on Yom HaShoah.
Raz Levin, who serves as the head of the school, said the students each year take part in the memorial ceremony on April 17.
Leading up to the solemn day, the students spent two weeks in Israel during the winter.
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“They visit Yad Vashem,” Levin told Patch. “They learn about the Holocaust under the subject of Jewish history two periods a week.”
In the class, they are taught about the rise of Nazism from the 1930s to the end of World War II.
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Levin said part of the curriculum includes the ever-topical lessons learned from the Holocaust.
“We cover examples of anti-Semitic events that we have here in the U.S. and in Europe,” he said.
The students learn about the rise of hatred; they are explained the different forms that anti-Semitism takes and “how they will be exposed to anti-Semitism in their future,” Levin said.
It’s also important, Levin said, to connect the Jewish experience with what other cultures have faced.
“We correlate the anti-Semitism, or the misery of the people, to the misery of other people, non-Jewish people, such as the Ukrainian people with war with Russia and the terrible events that happened in Syria,” he said.
Brandeis Hebrew Academy also had a partnership with the JCC, working on a monthly basis with Holocaust survivors, who are invited to their Passover Model Seder on Thursday, April 5.
“It’s extremely important for us that the kids will learn about the Holocaust,” Levin said. “One way of learning about the Holocaust is, obviously, to get in touch with the survivors.”
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