Witnessing Holocaust History: From Generation to Generation

WE ARE HERE! Project for Upstanders

Awarded a US Government Funded Cultural Grant in 2019

In Partnership with HAMEC, WAH!, and World ORT

Witnessing Holocaust History: From Generation to Generation

MEDIA

The Maccabean – 5 February 2021

The Cape Jewish Chronicle – 3 February 2021

http://cjc.org.za/witnessing-holocaust-history-global-project/

World ORT

Holocaust Memorial Day 2021: ORT students feel ‘moral duty’ to share survivors’ stories

ORT Mishpatheinu Kazan Russia

Алексей Першагин

https://www.instagram.com/p/CKl4gNNnQOj/

Here are some translations in Google translate:

Pupils of the 10th grade of ORT “Mishpahteinu” became participants in the international project Holocaust Remembrance Day Project, in which the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center (Philadelphia) and the “WE ARE HERE!” 💪🏻

As part of this project, the children had the opportunity to communicate with people who survived the disaster and take part in the final festive concert dedicated to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Our tenth graders were not just spectators of the event – the hymn of the Jewish partisans “Zog Nit Keyn Mol” performed by them was selected as one of the numbers of the concert. You also have a unique opportunity to enjoy the singing of our guys and their leader, Alexei Eduardovchia Pershagin, by going to IGTV 😍

2. Youtube video

https://youtu.be/xsVL0BHRn3s

https://www.instagram.com/p/CKjN8dInRJA/

Special thanks to those who took and are taking part in the #WeRemember promotion.

https://www.facebook.com/WorldORT/posts/4230701936944448

Ellenbrook Secondary College & Carmel School joint choir – Perth Australia – in Yiddish, Hebrew, English and Noongar indigenous language

Director – Stuart Rhine-Davis, arrangement – Suzanne Kosowitz and translation into Noongar – Jesse J. Fleay.

Herzlia School Cape Town – the performance in Yiddish, Hebrew & English for SABC TV

Arrangement: Cantor Ivor Joffe

Documentary on Simcha TV / SABC TV produced by Heather Blumenthal

Witnessing Holocaust History – In The Press

https://elirab.me/witness-holocaust-history/

https://hamec.org

https://www.facebook.com/elirab1/posts/10158674154916070

Press Release International Remembrance Day 2021

**Herzlia School, Cape Town, South Africa**

The Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center, World ORT, and the WE ARE HERE! Foundation have partnered this year to provide an international experience of Holocaust education and remembrance to students around the world. This is an international project that commemorates the Holocaust and also provides opportunities for global Holocaust education, engaging the next generation of learners.

**Combined choir – Ellenbrook Secondary College & Carmel School, Perth, Australia**

The Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center will provide Witness to History Survivor Testimony programs to World ORT, the global education network driven by Jewish values, where students will have the opportunity to engage directly with a Holocaust survivor and hear their stories. These students will also, through the WE ARE HERE! Foundation, learn the importance and legacy of the Partisans’ Song, and join together globally through sharing that music in their own languages. The Partisans’ Song, the song of hope, is the legacy of the partisans and the survivors.

Join us on 27 January 2021 for a special broadcast program which will showcase the testimony shared with the students, allow them to describe and share their experiences with each other, and connect globally through the harmony of learning experiences and the singing of the Partisans’ Song.

**Bielski Partisans’ Reunion, Naliboki Forest, Belarus**

Other information about partner organizations:

World ORT: ORT is a global education network driven by Jewish values. Since 1880, ORT has transformed lives through training and education. It now reaches 300,000 people a year in more than 30 countries. ORT provides a combination of high-level science and technology education with strengthened Jewish identity, bridging the gap between ability and opportunity.

WAH!: The objective of our WE ARE HERE! project is to promote Human Rights and Social Justice through the principle of choosing to be an Upstander. Our focus is on language, literature, music, film, the arts, and other cultural forms. We feature the Partisans’ song, long revered by Holocaust survivors, including to this day. The very words embrace the understanding of what it takes to be an Upstander, and not a bystander. The message is relevant today both in the school yard, the sports field, and on the internet, to counter discrimination and cyber bullying.

HAMEC: Our mission is to educate students and adults, personalizing the Holocaust so that they learn the consequences of racism, ethnic cleansing, and intolerance. The Holocaust was a watershed event, not only in the 20th century, but in the entire history of humanity. Our Educational Programs serve the five-county area of Greater Philadelphia and beyond. We offer a variety of educational programs, including eyewitness testimonies, personal interactions with eyewitnesses, two live theater performances, and docent-led museum tours.

Schedule of Events for the Broadcast on 27 January 2021

Introduction of each partner organization by a spokesperson (live)
Clips/short segments of Witness to History speaker testimony (pre-recorded)
Student reflection and impact statements on shared experience of listening to survivor testimony (pre-recorded?)
Brief explanation of the historical and present significance of the Partisans’ Song (live)
edited compilation of the Partisans’ Song being sung in different languages (pre-recorded)

Participating ORT Schools for January Event

Country/ City	Timezone	School
Mexico/ Mexico City	CST	CIM-ORT
South Africa/ Cape Town	SAST	Herzlia
South Africa/Johannesburg	SAST	King David Victory Park High
Bulgaria/Sofia	EEST	Dimcho Debelianov Hebrew and English Language School
Netherlands/ Amsterdam	CET	JSG Maimonides
Spain/Madrid	CET	ORT Colegio Estrella Toledano
Russia/ St Petersburg	MST	ORT de Gunzburg Secondary School # 550 “Shorashim”
Russia/ Samara	SST	Samara ORT Secondary School# 42, “Gesher”
Russia/ Moscow	MST	ORT Tekhiya, Center of Education # 1311
Russia/Moscow	MST	ORT Moscow Technology School, Gymnasium # 1540
Russia/ Kazan	MST	ORT “Mishpahteinu” Secondary School # 12
Ukraine/ Chernivtsi	EEST	ORT Specialized School #41
Ukraine/ Kiev	EEST	Kiev ORT Educational Complex #141
Ukraine/ Odessa	EEST	ORT Secondary School # 94
Ukraine/ Zhaporozhie	EEST	ORT “Aleph” Jewish Gymnasium
Moldova/ Kishinev	EEST	ORT Technology Lyceum
Estonia/ Tallinn	EEST	ORT Tallinn Jewish School
Latvia/ Riga	EEST	ORT Network Jewish Secondary School
Lithuania/ Vilnius	EEST	Vilnius Sholom Aleichem ORT School