Welcome Educators
Dear Jewish Educator,
Thank you for your interest. The Remember Us Project is a free and voluntary program that supports and empowers children in their encounter with the Holocaust. This is not a curriculum, it is simply an invitation to an act of memory. Participation does not add any time to the
student’s or the teacher’s schedule.
With your cooperation, we invite each child who is preparing for bar/bat mitzvah to remember one child who was lost in the Holocaust before having the opportunity to be called to the Torah, and to act in his/her name.
Click here for the participation registration form. The Mentor’s Guide provides complete information about the program. Your student chooses what to do. We offer suggestsions about doing mitzvot in the name of the remembered children, speaking about him/her from the bimah, etc. Click here to see all program materials.
To order program materials to distribute to bnai mitzvah students and their families, including memorial sheets with names or a one-page information form directing families to request a name online, click here.
More than 13,000 children have accepted this invitation to remember a child who was lost in the Holocaust before having the chance to be called the Torah.
- To have your students participate in the Remember Us Project, please click here for the participation registration form. We can either:
- provide names for you to give to the children, or
- send informational material so that any interested family can request a name through our web site.
- Congregations at which children have participated.
- Feedback from children and families.
- Articles about the Remember Us Project.
- FAQs
A Special Note
Your participation in Remember Us helps mend the torn fabric of Jewish history. It is as if the life story of the child you are remembering now continues through you, your family, and your community. Your commitment becomes part of that child�s biography. The good that you do in the child�s name becomes part of his/her life story as well as your own.
You can help build the continuity of this story by adding to the culture of memory.
- Tell your friends, family about remembering
- Participate in Yom Hashoah
- Provide ongoing financial support for Remember Us, in any amount
- Involve the next rising cohort of children in your congregation or community
Through your good works, we make real our traditional phrase about the remembered children, “May his/her memory be for a blessing.”