Holocaust Remembrance Day

Holidays & Events

High Int – Adv
Grades 9–12

Students read important history about the Holocaust. The lesson includes a reading, vocabulary review, and useful expressions for discussing sensitive subject matter in English.

You may want to use this lesson on International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan 27), on Yom Ha’Shoah (Holocaust & Heroism Remembrance Day; 27 Nissan in the Hebrew calendar), or on an alternate day that your country honors Holocaust victims.

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Focus

topic-based
4-skills
interpretive

Vocabulary

commemorate
mourning
devastation
genocide
discriminatory
boycott
concentration camp
segregate
ghetto
pledge
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