Triumph of Spirit - A faith based approach to Holocaust education

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Triumph of Spirit: A faith based approach to Holocaust education

There’s a glaring void in Holocaust education and scholarship of the values, perspectives and responses of faith-driven Jewish communities. Rabbi Sholom Friedmann shares insight on the incredible phenomenon of believing Jews finding meaning in a meaningless reality of genocide that was perpetrated upon all Jews.

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By Sholom Friedmann

Rabbi Sholom Friedmann is the director and CEO of the Kleinman Holocaust Education Center (KHEC). He has focused his career on developing Holocaust education programming and curriculum in the United States and England, where he also served as a pulpit Rabbi and a high school educator. In addition to rabbinic ordination and a graduate degree, he is a Fellow of Holocaust Studies (of the Imperial War Museum). Rabbi Friedmann is a sought after lecturer and educator on all matters of the Holocaust.

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Sylvia U.K. January 4, 2016

Thank you Holocaust of Learned helplessness as there is no vision of the light within and ahead. This was the ultimate experience of man's inhumanity to man. There is no logical reasoning, no logical explanation just pure evil intent towards innocent victims.

Let us pray 'never again'.

For those with the strength and tenacity to survive is a lesson for mankind to learn the results of evil inhumanity. Reply

Helen Dudden Bristol January 2, 2016

I was very moved by the story of the Rabbi and his family. What else could be said, I simply can't understand why it was done. It's impossible to even understand the reasoning for so much suffering. Reply