AZJHS Teacher (Holocaust Education) Resources

Dear Educator,

The Arizona Jewish Historical Society (AZJHS) is proud to offer resources that could be helpful to your school in meeting the Arizona Legislature’s Holocaust Education mandate/requirement to teach about the Holocaust and other genocides twice between 7th and 12th grades. Our consortium is making an exceptional impact on the community in offering a variety of programming, providing additional educational resources to students and teachers that makes an emotional connection to the primary source.

 In the past few years, over 8,000 6-12th grade students across Arizona participated in educational programming. These programs help educators and students make an emotional connection to the darkest days of human history, and creates a climate of respect. We work to teach how prejudice, racism, anti-Semitism, stereotyping, and discrimination can lead to genocide and help to guide them through a call to action of a local Holocaust survivor, which is evident in the following programming opportunities.

• Making an Emotional Connection to the Holocaust education/seminar programs

• Surviving Humanity (Reframing America) education/seminar programs

• Our Parent’s Stories education/seminar programs

• Arizona Upstanders education/seminar programs

• Yom HaShoah Commemoration Events

• Journey Through the Holocaust

• AZJHS Holocaust-themed exhibitions

• Interactive Hologram: Holocaust Testimony Experience

• Phoenix Holocaust Association Speakers Bureau

• Holocaust Survivor Memoirs

• Echoes & Reflections

• Scottsdale Arts’ The Hope Chest

• Exhibit Preview - Stories of Survival

• Holocaust Impact Video Creator Contest (Ongoing | 2024 Entries | 2023 Entries)

We hope you will partner with us in implementing this framework to create sustainable change that leads to kindness, understanding, and knowledge of past events that can hopefully help toward eradicating hate.

To download the accompanying Flier: CLICK HERE

For further information, you may reach Anthony Fusco, AZJHS Education Coordinator by filling out the form below. If there is someone else in your school or district with whom we should be in contact, please include that individual’s contact information.

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122 E. Culver Street, Phoenix, Arizona 85004-1720

We are located right next to Burton Barr Phoenix Public Library. To find us, take 2nd Street south from McDowell.