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'Always Remember Your Name': Here are museums and online resources to learn more about the Holocaust

KCRA 3 shares the remarkable Holocaust survival story of two Italian sisters in our documentary "Always Remember Your Name." Learn more about the Holocaust by visiting the websites of these leading organizations.

'Always Remember Your Name': Here are museums and online resources to learn more about the Holocaust

KCRA 3 shares the remarkable Holocaust survival story of two Italian sisters in our documentary "Always Remember Your Name." Learn more about the Holocaust by visiting the websites of these leading organizations.

NEW DOCUMENTARY TITLED ALWAYS REMEMBER YOUR NAME. DEIRDRE FITZPATRICK JOINS US NOW IN STUDIO WITH MORE ABOUT THE SISTERS FEATURED IN THIS DOCUMENTARY. SO ALWAYS REMEMBER YOUR NAME IS THE STORY OF THE BUCCI SISTERS, ANDREA AND TATIANA BUCCI ARE TWO OF THE YOUNGEST SURVIVORS OF THE AUSCHWITZ CONCENTRATION CAMP, AND MANY DESCRIBE THEIR BOOK AS A PARALLEL STORY TO ANNE FRANK’S. TINA FERGUSON IS THE OWNER OF FACEBOOK BOOKSTORE AND IS JOINING US WITH SOME SUGGESTIONS TO INTRODUCE CHILDREN AND TEENS TO THE HOLOCAUST AND FOR A LOT OF US, ANNE FRANK’S STORY WAS REALLY THE INTRODUCTION TO THAT TIME IN HISTORY. 100% AN INTRODUCTION TO THAT MOMENT IN HISTORY, AND ALSO AN INTRODUCTION TO CHILDREN’S ROLE ROLES IN IN HISTORY AND HOW THEY CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE IN WHAT’S HAPPENING AROUND THEM AND FOR THE FUTURE. YOU BROUGHT A NUMBER OF BOOKS, AND IT IS INTERESTING, LIKE AS EARLY AS THE AGE OF THREE, WHICH IS WHAT THIS BOOK IS RECOMMENDED FOR. YOU CAN ACTUALLY START INTRODUCING CHILDREN TO THESE HISTORICAL EVENTS. YES, I LOVE CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOKS THAT ARE CENTERED AROUND NONFICTION EVENTS, AND THIS IS THE TREE OF LIFE ON HOW A SAPLING INSPIRED THE WORLD. AND THIS IS A TRUE STORY THAT TAKES PLACE IN THE TEREZIN CONCENTRATION CAMP. A GENTLEMAN THERE WOULD IN SECRET, MEET WITH JEWISH CHILDREN AND TEACH THEM ABOUT THEIR TRADITIONS AND ABOUT THEIR HOLIDAYS. ONE WHICH IS THE NEW YEAR OF THE TREES. AND HE SOMEHOW GOT A GUARD AT THIS CAMP TO SNEAK IN A SAPLING IN HIS BOOT, AND THEY TOOK THE SAPLING, AND HE AND THE CHILDREN PLANTED IT IN SECRET. AND EVERY DAY IN SECRET WOULD CARE FOR IT. SHARE WHAT LITTLE WATER THEY HAD WITH THE TREE. AND SIX YEARS LATER, WHEN THE WAR WAS OVER, THE TREE WAS OVER FIVE FEET TALL. AND NOW THERE’S OVER 600 SAPLINGS FROM THAT ORIGINAL TREE AROUND THE WORLD. IT’S GOT CHILLS WITH YOU TALKING ABOUT THAT BEAUTIFUL LOIS LOWRY WHO SOME PEOPLE MIGHT REMEMBER. SHE HAS WRITTEN A BOOK CALLED THE GIVER, WHICH IS A BOOK THAT’S USED IN A LOT OF HIGH SCHOOLS. IS REQUIRED READING. SHE HAS ANOTHER ONE ABOUT THE DANISH RESISTANCE AND THIS ONE IS CALLED NUMBER THE STARS. AND THIS IS A TRUE STORY. IT IS A TRUE STORY, AND IT’S POWERFUL BECAUSE IT’S TOLD FROM THE EYES OF TEN YEAR OLD ANA MARIE. SO IT’S TOLD FROM A CHILD’S PERSPECTIVE ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON AROUND HER. AND AS SHE SEES THESE PEOPLE RISKING THEIR VERY LIVES TO GET PEOPLE TO SAFETY IN SWEDEN AND HER FRIEND ELLEN, HER BEST FRIEND, IS HIDDEN WITH HER FAMILY. AND THEN SHE THEN GOES OFF TO SWEDEN AND THE COVER AT THE END OF THE STORY, SHE’S CLUTCHING THIS, HER FRIEND’S NECKLACE, HOPING THAT WHEN THE WAR IS OVER, THEY’LL GET TO BE REUNITED. PEOPLE DON’T KNOW ABOUT DENMARK’S ROLE IN THE WAR. 90% OF THE -- IN DENMARK SURVIVED WORLD WAR TWO BECAUSE OF SEVEN OVER 7000. YES, OF OF PEOPLE THERE. THIS IS A FASCINATING ONE. THIS IS CALLED WHEN WE FLEW AWAY AND THIS IS BY ALICE HOFFMAN. THIS IS A STORY ABOUT THE YEARS BEFORE ANNE FRANK WAS DEPORTED TO AUSCHWITZ. YES. I LOVE THAT THIS BOOK OPENS WITH ANNE FRANK, JUST AS ANY OTHER 12 YEAR OLD. JUST THINKING BIG THINGS AND DREAMING BIG DREAMS WANTS TO GO TO CALIFORNIA AND LIVE LIFE. AND SHE THEN HAS TO GO INTO HIDING AND SHE IS, YOU KNOW, SHE HAS TO LEARN ABOUT ALL THESE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING AND HOW SHE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. AND I JUST THINK IT’S REALLY POWERFUL. ALICE HOFFMAN ACTUALLY SAID THAT SHE BECAME A WRITER BECAUSE OF READING DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL WHEN SHE WAS A YOUNG GIRL HERSELF. WOW. THE BOOK THIEF IS A BOOK THAT I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE MIGHT RECOGNIZE, BECAUSE THIS WAS ACTUALLY TURNED INTO A MOVIE. AT ONE POINT IT WAS PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE READ THE BOOK AND THEN SEE THE MOVIE. BUT THIS BOOK REALLY HAS RESONATED WITH ME FOR SO LONG. IT’S UNLIKE ANY BOOK I’VE READ. IT’S NARRATED BY DEATH AND DEATH ACTUALLY SEES THIS ONE LITTLE GIRL NAMED LIESEL, WHO’S STEALING BOOKS. LIESEL IS STEALING BOOKS BEFORE SHE EVEN KNOWS HOW TO READ, BECAUSE SHE KNOWS THEY’RE IMPORTANT AND SHE BECOMES THE BOOK THIEF. AND IT’S JUST A STORY ABOUT THIS, ABOUT THE POWER OF WORDS, REALLY TO HEAL, BUT ALSO HOW THEY CAN HURT. OKAY, THIS ONE I FOUND VERY FASCINATING. SO THIS IS CALLED WHITE BOARD OR WHITE BOARD. IT’S BY R.J. PALACIO. IF YOU SAW THE MOVIE AND READ THE BOOK WONDER. YES, THERE IS A CHARACTER, THE BULLY FROM WONDER IS ACTUALLY THE MAIN CHARACTER IN THIS BOOK. YES. SO THIS I CHOSE THIS BOOK BECAUSE IT’S A GRAPHIC NOVEL, WHICH IS REALLY GREAT FOR STORYTELLING. IT’S REALLY GOOD FOR THOSE RELUCTANT READERS WHO DON’T WANT TO GET BOGGED DOWN IN HISTORY, BUT THIS WILL BE SOMETHING THAT’S REALLY GOING TO BE SITTING STRONG WITH THEM. JULIAN IS HAVING A FACE TIME WITH HIS GRANDMOTHER, SARAH, WHO IS IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS, AND AS SHE IS RETELLING HIM, HER STORY, HE’S REALIZING THAT, YOU KNOW, THE BULLY THAT HE WAS, THE PERSON THAT HE WAS CAN CHANGE. HE CAN LEARN HOW TO BE EMPATHETIC. HE CAN LEARN HOW TO TO CHANGE AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE. AFTER BEING THAT KIND OF INDIVIDUAL. AND THEN AS WE WRAP UP, OUR DOCUMENTARY IS CALLED ALWAYS REMEMBER YOUR NAME. AND IT’S ACTUALLY THE SAME TITLE AS THE SISTER’S MEMOIR. IT’S WRITTEN, THEY WROTE THIS BOOK AND AS THEY WRITE IT, YOU GENUINELY FEEL LIKE TWO YOUNG GIRLS ARE REMEMBERING THEIR WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM AND THEN ALSO WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM. THE REST OF THEIR LIFE. IT’S VERY IT’S KIND OF DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN, BUT IT’S REALLY AN AMAZING BOOK. AND CERTAINLY WORTH ALSO INTRODUCIN
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'Always Remember Your Name': Here are museums and online resources to learn more about the Holocaust

KCRA 3 shares the remarkable Holocaust survival story of two Italian sisters in our documentary "Always Remember Your Name." Learn more about the Holocaust by visiting the websites of these leading organizations.

Italian sisters Andra and Tatiana Bucci were two of just 50 children under the age of 8 to survive the Auschwitz concentration camp complex where 1.1 million people were killed during the Holocaust.KCRA 3 shares the Bucci sisters' remarkable survival story in our documentary "Always Remember Your Name." The documentary tracks their mission to tell their story over and over to ensure something like the Holocaust never happens again – speaking to students from Miwok Middle School in Sacramento to Italy and Auschwitz in Poland.Watch "Always Remember Your Name" here. (Video above: Books for children and young adults to learn about the Holocaust.)Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, defines the Holocaust as the systematic “murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators.” Jewish communities also use the Hebrew term “Shoah” to refer to the Holocaust. The Nazis also murdered more than 3 million Soviet prisoners of war and hundreds of thousands of Roma and Sinti. Many were also persecuted and killed over their sexual orientation, mental or physical disabilities, political activities and more. Below are some resources to learn more about the Holocaust. Many offer online exhibits and teaching guides for educators as well. (This is not a definitive list.)Yad VashemJerusalem-based Yad Vashem consists of museums, exhibitions, monuments, sculptures on memorial sites. “Our museums division brings Holocaust history to life through personal artifacts, historical narratives, and exhibitions that highlight the loss experienced by Jewish communities across Europe,” spokesperson Ashley Bartov said. It also has an extensive website with online exhibits and educational resources, including “Ready2Print” exhibits.Bartov said that Yad Vashem partners with countries around the world on Holocaust education. Its International Institute for Holocaust Education offers teaching seminars, specialized programs for law enforcement and lesson plans. “Echoes & Reflections” “Echoes & Reflections” was developed by Yad Vashem in partnership with the Anti-Defamation League and the USC Shoah Foundation.It was founded in 2005 as a “comprehensive program that empowers teachers and students with the knowledge and tools to engage with Holocaust history,” Bartov said. Its website includes a timeline of the Holocaust, lesson plans, student activities, webinars, online courses and a section called “students’ toughest questions” about the Holocaust. United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is based on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The museum's permanent exhibition about the history of the Holocaust spans three floors and takes one to three hours to visit. It features historical artifacts, video footage and personal stories and “offers a chronological narrative of the Holocaust.”Its Holocaust Encyclopedia is the most visited online resource about the Holocaust with more than 950 articles in English and hundreds of them translated into 19 languages, according to the museum. The museum also offers suggestions for educators to teach about the Holocaust, lesson plans and shares videos for classroom use. USC Shoah Foundation The USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive has more than 55,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust. You can learn more here.Jewish Family and Children’s Services Holocaust CenterThe San Francisco Bay Area-based Jewish Family and Children’s Services Holocaust Center offers lesson plans and online exhibits about the Holocaust. The center established the California Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education, a group of 14 institutions that work to train educators in lessons of history from the Holocaust and other genocides. California has required Holocaust and genocide education to be taught in public schools since 1985, but there has been no systematic teacher training or standard curriculum.A law newly signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Senate Bill 1277, makes the Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education an official state program.European Holocaust Research Infrastructure - Country ReportsEHRI is a consortium of archives, libraries, museums, memorials and research institutions that maintains a free online portal with access to Holocaust-related archive material that is held in Europe and elsewhere. Among its offerings are reports on Holocaust history by country.International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance - Museum DatabaseHere is a database of more museums and monuments across the world where you can check if there is a museum near where you live. The list was compiled by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. The alliance was founded in Sweden and is made up of 35 member countries. See coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter

Italian sisters Andra and Tatiana Bucci were two of just 50 children under the age of 8 to survive the Auschwitz concentration camp complex where 1.1 million people were killed during the Holocaust.

KCRA 3 shares the Bucci sisters' remarkable survival story in our documentary "Always Remember Your Name." The documentary tracks their mission to tell their story over and over to ensure something like the Holocaust never happens again – speaking to students from Miwok Middle School in Sacramento to Italy and Auschwitz in Poland.

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Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, defines the Holocaust as the systematic “murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators.” Jewish communities also use the Hebrew term “Shoah” to refer to the Holocaust.

The Nazis also murdered more than 3 million Soviet prisoners of war and hundreds of thousands of Roma and Sinti. Many were also persecuted and killed over their sexual orientation, mental or physical disabilities, political activities and more.

Below are some resources to learn more about the Holocaust. Many offer online exhibits and teaching guides for educators as well. (This is not a definitive list.)

Yad Vashem

Jerusalem-based Yad Vashem consists of museums, exhibitions, monuments, sculptures on memorial sites.

“Our museums division brings Holocaust history to life through personal artifacts, historical narratives, and exhibitions that highlight the loss experienced by Jewish communities across Europe,” spokesperson Ashley Bartov said.

It also has an extensive website with online exhibits and educational resources, including “Ready2Print” exhibits.

Bartov said that Yad Vashem partners with countries around the world on Holocaust education. Its International Institute for Holocaust Education offers teaching seminars, specialized programs for law enforcement and lesson plans.

“Echoes & Reflections”

Echoes & Reflections” was developed by Yad Vashem in partnership with the Anti-Defamation League and the USC Shoah Foundation.

It was founded in 2005 as a “comprehensive program that empowers teachers and students with the knowledge and tools to engage with Holocaust history,” Bartov said.

Its website includes a timeline of the Holocaust, lesson plans, student activities, webinars, online courses and a section called “students’ toughest questions” about the Holocaust.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is based on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

The museum's permanent exhibition about the history of the Holocaust spans three floors and takes one to three hours to visit. It features historical artifacts, video footage and personal stories and “offers a chronological narrative of the Holocaust.”

Its Holocaust Encyclopedia is the most visited online resource about the Holocaust with more than 950 articles in English and hundreds of them translated into 19 languages, according to the museum.

The museum also offers suggestions for educators to teach about the Holocaust, lesson plans and shares videos for classroom use.

USC Shoah Foundation

The USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive has more than 55,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust. You can learn more here.

Jewish Family and Children’s Services Holocaust Center

The San Francisco Bay Area-based Jewish Family and Children’s Services Holocaust Center offers lesson plans and online exhibits about the Holocaust. The center established the California Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education, a group of 14 institutions that work to train educators in lessons of history from the Holocaust and other genocides.

California has required Holocaust and genocide education to be taught in public schools since 1985, but there has been no systematic teacher training or standard curriculum.

A law newly signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Senate Bill 1277, makes the Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education an official state program.

European Holocaust Research Infrastructure - Country Reports

EHRI is a consortium of archives, libraries, museums, memorials and research institutions that maintains a free online portal with access to Holocaust-related archive material that is held in Europe and elsewhere. Among its offerings are reports on Holocaust history by country.

International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance - Museum Database

Here is a database of more museums and monuments across the world where you can check if there is a museum near where you live. The list was compiled by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. The alliance was founded in Sweden and is made up of 35 member countries.


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