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Against All Odds: Surviving the Holocaust

Common Core and the Holocaust by Alan Singer

Common Core and the Holocaust by Alan Singer

Learning to conduct research with contemporaneous interviews

Contemporaneous interviews are an excellent way to obtain accurate information. Ask your students to visit www.degob.org which has the personal stories of more than 3,500 Hungarian Holocaust Survivors recorded in 1945-46. These contemporaneous Protocols are extremely valuable in understanding how difficult their lives were during 1944 and 1945. Each student should pick one female and […]

Survivors of the Holocaust – pre-study guide

From “Race to Racism” between 1933 and 1945, the Nazis murdered about one-third of all of the Jews in the world. Young and old alike were killed solely because of their ancestry. How could it happen in the twentieth century in the heart of Europe? Historians, psychologists, and theologians are still debating that question. So […]

Is this Nazi soldier innocent or a war criminal?

1. Have your students read: Innocence by Klaus Heck. Ask them to answer in an essay or class presentation if the solder in the story is innocent or a war criminal?

Quiz 1

There are no quizzes yet for Against All Odds: Surviving the Holocaust. We do have a quiz and answer sheet for registered educators on our A Journey Into the Holocaust educational website. Please register at www.ajourneyintotheholocaust.com/educators/

@chesatcarleton To fight antisemitism introduce teachers to , the film and teacher's guide used by teachers in 46 states. It raises the morality of students. All resources are free to teachers.

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How Deep Does anti-Semitism Run in a Person's Belief System? A 77-year old owner of a house covered in Nazi memorabilia in Belgium decided he would rather go to jail than take down the Nazi symbols.

I just posted a blog on how Anti-Semitism is Alive and Well at the New York Times Very important. As Yogi Berra said, dé·jà vu all over again.

North Carolina House Passes House Bill 437, Mandatory Education on the Holocaust and Genocide. The North Carolina Senate is the Next Step.

The A Journey Into the Holocaust free educational program, including a teacher's guide, is now being used by teachers in Canada and New Zealand. Register with your school email address at

We are now also on Filmhub. Teachers in 44 states use this film and its teacher's guide to educate middle and high school students about the Holocaust and genocide. https://t.co/8S0qIpB3zL

A video about how Lithuania citizens murdered 200,000 Jewish citizens, is embedded in this link: https://t.co/Qj8V5Nqb00

The film "A Journey Into the Holocaust" is now on Comcast On Demand! Tell your friends, parents, and children - then your teachers. Watch it https://t.co/6NrgAP8DMA

36 Christian Coptics killed on Palm Sunday by ISIS suicide bombers just because they follow a different religion.

Insightful article on the Non-Muslim Rule against Christians Jews and tolerance in Muslim countries like Indonesia.

Paul Winkler - headed the State of NJ Commission on Holocaust Education and made it the educational leader has died.

PLO has a formal policy of paying terrorists/heirs monthly pensions for attacking Israelis. https://t.co/PucGhe4dkZ

Governor Snyder Signs Bill 6/14/16 Mandating Genocide Education in Michigan schools grades 8-12 -ABC News - via @ABC

Anti-Semitism morphs again this time into the BDS - Terrorism and economic warfare in Israel - - @washtimes

Just signed Turnberry Injustice petition. A 22% annual increase without any discussion with members. via @ipetitions

@HolocaustFilm https://t.co/wZcBLzydYN

University of London panel calls for destruction of Israel as a solution to ridding world of antisemitism.

Truman-Jacobson video watch it and show it to your entire family. This is something you will always remember.

Intersectionality is being very effectively and continuously used to spread anti-Israel and anti-Semitic beliefs.

Dispelling the ‘Few Extremists’ Myth – Muslim World Overcome with Hate via @NRO :possibly 50,000,000 ISIS supporters

Vatican says Christianity has Jewish roots and a Christian can never be an anti-Semite. https://t.co/ppOCHS0oUy

Dedication from Heirs to Grandparents who sent their children out of Germany in 1939 never to be seen again.

For more Budapest WW2 history see:

Part 1 of never b4 seen interview of Budapest Survivor Eva Szecsi discussing life as a Jew in Hungary in the 1930's.

Today is the anniversary of the start of Kristallnacht,the pogrom against the Jews in Germany and Austria. 2night AJITH played to 225 people

Yesterday 46 teachers registered to use our free educational program A Journey into the Holocaust in their classrooms. Register@ our home pg

Grand Mufti of Jerusalem played a major role in the Holocaust including successful efforts with Hitler and Britain.

@TheHalliCJShow @RRurangwa @HolocaustFilm now has German, French, Spanish, English (for hearing impaired) and Russian closed captions

IN on paribus

Britian's Labour Party leader greets terrorists determined to exterminate Jews as friends, are we back to the 1930s?

My never seen b4 video of Budapest Survivor Eva Szecsi on why her family, knowing the danger, did not try to escape.

A Journey into the Holocaust is now on Amazon Prime. Prime members watch for free. Go to http://t.co/64kSLtfbsK

60 years after its 1955 pogrom against ethnic Greeks Turkey can no longer bury its ugly history against non-Muslims.

The steps being taken to get the Iranians to change their ideology are making the world subject to more genocides.

The Iran deal will unchain top ayatollah’s terror slush fund perhaps worth $95 billion from US Treasury. via @nypost

Iranian ex-pat: Nuclear deal ruins opportunity to remove the ayatollahs from power

Anti-Semitic Remarks by US Secretary of State John Kerry and similar hints by Pres. Obama. History repeats itself.

Why has the world not responded to the genocide of Yezidi's in Iraq by ISIS? 74 Yezidi genocides since 630 CE!

A German Member of Parliament wants to exempt Muslim students from mandatory visits to concentration camps. Terrible!

Robert Wistrich, who wrote 29 books on anti-Semisitm including AntiSemitism: The Longest Hatred has died @ age of 70.

PA President Abbas rejects Israel's offer to help Palestinian refugees in Syria resettle in the West Bank and Gaza

On your big TV now watch 'A Journey into the Holocaust' - Trailer & Movie at Vimeo On Demand http://t.co/XuVDGjUkeh

@AR_Pearce Please look at and our doc which is in 2k US schools.Why the Holocaust happened & why genocide continues.

After studying the Holocaust less than 7% of Britian's students knew Britian did nothing to save the Jews during WWII

Who is the devil Iran or the US? Iran calls America the "Great Satan" because western beliefs totally threaten theirs

Kissinger & Schultz go beyond typical media coverage of the Iran Deal to analyze the long term genocidal results.

New article about us: T.I. Adult Education presents 'A Journey into the Holocaust' - Heritage Florida Jewish News

Is it time for the Jews to Leave Europe? The history of anti-Semitism in Europe. By @JeffreyGoldberg in The Atlantic

For people with hearing impairments we haved added English closed caption capability to our film's VOD choices.

Why this deal with Iran cannot be accepted if we want to preserve the world for our children. No one can trust Iran.

"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation." - #ElieWiesel

RT ISIS Is Not a Terrorist Group via @ForeignAffairs Because it operates more like a country with its own government

RT Libya's War on Christians Christians in the Middle East are constantly being slaughtered by Islamic State groups

RT @BocaNews1: Area Teachers To Be Honored For Outstanding Holocaust Education

RT: @JournalSentinel Holocaust education evolves as number of survivors dwindles

We now offer video on demand! You can stream our #documentary on the #holocaust & #genocide by visiting our webstore

PewResearchCenter has issued a report "The continuing decline of Europe’s Jewish" population & renewed anti-Semitism

NYT article closely follows my film "A Journey into the Holocaust" when it describes brutal life in DPCamps after WW2

Our Store just opened tonight. Buy DVDs & Blu-rays of A Journey into the Holocaust. Schedule screenings. Just go to

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen latest article on how beliefs can cause people to annihilate a targeted group.

Our film tells targeted groups to leave before it's to late. PACKING TIME for FRENCH JEWS, by Bret Stephens, WSJ 1-19-2015follows our point

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” - Martin Luther King Jr #MLKDay #MLKDay2015

Our screening at the Miami Jewish Film Festival is now SOLD OUT! For other screening info check out our website

Some insight into Radical Islam and its justification of grotesque Jihadist terrorism including be-headings.

ISIS is growing in Gaza and threatening the lives of writers and women. Eventually ISIS will forceably replace Hamas.

Miami Jewish Film Festival presents A Journey into the Holocaust 1/27/15 @7:30pm @ Aventura Turnberry JC 888-585-3456

Assuming personal responsibility for your welfare and actions can stop the cycle of Palestinian Muslim violence.

Germany murdered up to 500,000 Romani during WWII, but now accepts full blame. How do they acknowledge their guilt?

In 1944 Hungary had 725,000 Jews. 100,000 survived in Budapest ghetto or int'l safe houses. How did safe houses work?

The estimated annual price tag for the US war against ISIS is $40 billion.

Ken Burns documentary fails to show that Roosevelt could have easily saved 190,000 Jews during 1930s and 40s.

Four hidden gas chambers used to kill a quarter-million Jews at Sobibor in Eastern Poland unearthed by Archeologists.

10 million Syrians have been displaced by the Assad regime's ethnic cleansing of Syrian Sunnis with Iran's backing. Iran is very dangerous.

"Learning how to explore the anti-Semitic position of traitors to their faith and history" Sign up as an educator

ISIS has been given approval by their religious leaders to use weapons of mass destruction to commit genocide.

Media & UN agencies speciously alleged Gaza suffered 1,957 deaths in 5 wks, but most were terrorists, not civilians.

Chart of over 89 major genocides since end of the Holocaust in 1945 resulting in 55 million deaths now available at:

RT @Educate_Resist: Hate Crimes Against Jews On The Rise In Europe : NPR

July 14th video of Kuwaiti Muslim Cleric preaching martyrdom and the annihilation of Israeli's as deviant believers.

New article The U.N. Handmaiden of Hamas via @WSJ explains how UNRWA has 12,500 employees in Gaza & subsidizes Hamas

Disproportionate media under-coverage of Palestinian treatment by Arab countries proves anti-Semitism of media.

Honor-shame cultures are ripe for genocide. Honor is achieved by murdering the competing culture, often by genocide.

Been working on more information for our web site We will shortly post a list of 90 genocides where 55 million died.

Beliefs are deeply embedded & difficult to change. Can exchanges of land ever change anyone's beliefs? Very doubtful.

Pennsylvania has unanimously passed HB 1424 which starts making Holocaust, genocide & human rights violation education in schools mandatory.

European anti-Semitism is the canary in the coal mine of Western Civilization. We are in very dangerous times.

@Enigma3304 @IOE_Holocaust Millions of Germans and their supporters in other countries carried out this genocide. See

@Enigma3304 @IOE_Holocaust Who is your targeted audience? Why are you only identifying a small group of people, your "demons", as murderers?

Mainstream media needs to actively report the extent of Muslim persecution of Christians throughout the Islamic world

Siona poll finds that 74.2% of Sephardic French Jews are considering leaving France due to rising anti-Semitism.

Sudan Sentences Pregnant Woman to Death for Religious Beliefs | Article | Freedom House

You can see the 49 page executive summary of the ADL Global study on anti-Semitism at:

ADL sponsored Poll Says Anti-Semitism is Global Matter - estimates 1 million people are anti-Semitic

Rialto California School District asked 8th grade students to write essay on whether or not the Holocaust occurred.

Brunei last week began a new penal code based on Islamic law, or Shariah, that will make gay sex and adultery punishable by stoning to death

@JewishAgency reported 4/30 that "Suddenly, Israel is again seen as a real security alternative to what is taking place in Ukraine.’”

in a region that has cavalierly burned and destroyed churches & synagogues, ... the relevance of Israel to the concept of apartheid is zero.

Harvard Prof. Bertha Madras, discussing Kerry's inadequate apology for saying Israel was an apartheid state, says Kerry should have said:

German man talking about how his father saw himself as a German war hero and did nothing wrong to Jews and others.

Three dead in shootings at Jewish facilities in Kansas City suburb

Universal Pictures founder, Carl Laemmle's efforts and success saving German Jews from the Nazis over US objections.

Our third screening at the Palm Beach Film Festival has sold out 4th screening is being added at 2 PM today at Lake Worth's Stonzek Theatre.

The Journey into the Holocaust web site is up. It is loaded with info about the film and why genocide occurs.

Great movie review of our film A Journey into the Holocaust #AJTIH today. @HolocaustFilm

Jew hatred: Then…And Now via @sharethis

Limited # of tickets remain for April 4 at Palm Beach Gardens and April10 Lake worth screenings. For tickets go to:

The largest theater at the Cinemark Palace 20 Theater in Boca Raton is now sold out for the Tuesday 7:30 PM screening.

This film is the top selling ticket at the 2014 Palm Beach International Film Festival.

@Enigma3304 The world premiere is at the Palm Beach International Film Festival this week, April 4, 8 and 10th in Florida.

About to launch a web site on why Holocaust & genocide have/will happen. Send your blogs and documents. info@ajourneyintotheHolocaust.com.

Campus Brownshirts Rising on the campuses of US campuses. This is very serious rapidly growing bullying problem

Rose Koperwas, already naked in an Auschwitz gas chamber was taken out by a guard whose barrack she cleaned. Her rare story is in the film.

Since 1946 (post the Holocaust) a total of 50 genocides and mass atrocities have occurred in the world, resulting in 12 to 24 million deaths

When buying tickets for the April 8, 2014 showing at the Cinemark Palace 20 theater in Boca Raton, FL enter 33431 as the zip code.

Tickets are now on sale for the film at the 2014 Palm Beach International Film Festival, April 4, 8 and 10th, at:

A new version of the trailer has been posted. You can see it at: Please send this to your network.

You can view the trailer for the film at:

A 3rd showing of A Journey into the Holocaust has been added by the Palm Beach Int'l Film Festival on 4/10/2014 at 4PM in Lake Worth, FL

@NEXTGENERATION5 World Premiere of A Journey into the Holocaust 4/4/2014 @ 2:30PM. Cobb Downtown Theater in Palm Beach Gardens, 11701 Lake V

World Premiere, 2nd showing, of A Journey into the Holocaust 4/8/2014 @ 7:30PM. Cinemark Palace 20 Theater in Boca Raton, 3200 Airport Road

World Premiere of A Journey into the Holocaust 4/4/2014 @ 2:30PM. Cobb Downtown Theater in Palm Beach Gardens tckts

A Journey into the Holocaust has been chosen for the Documentary Features Competition at the 2014 Palm Beach International Film Festival!

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This film focuses on Survivor stories outside the concentration camps and living amongst the general population. Each day was uncertain, and Jews were hunted like animals. Discovery almost always meant death.

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