Because of the work of Holocaust survivor ,Ben Lesser, an unusual educational curriculum is available for teachers. Teachers can use the materials to show their students what it was like to live through the Holocaust from a factual first-person perspective.
The Nazi Invasion
Ben Lesser spent his youth in Poland. After the Nazi invasion, his family moved from Krakow and then later to Hungary. The Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944 when Ben was a teenager. After this, the members of the Lesser family were sent to concentration camps.
Ben was liberated at Dachau in 1945. Ben and his sister Lola were the only survivors of the original immediate family of seven. Ben required four months of hospitalization after the nightmare he had endured.
Moving to the United States
In 1947, Ben arrived in the United States with his sister, her husband and their baby son. They lived in Brooklyn for a time, but Ben soon headed to Los Angeles. There, he married and stayed until his retirement in 1995 from his career in real estate. He and his wife then moved to Las Vegas. Ben founded the Holocaust Remembrance Foundation in 2009.
Never Forget
One Hebrew word for remember is zachor. This word designates a requirement, not a suggestion. The word appears almost 200 times in the Hebrew Bible. The importance of never forgetting the atrocities of the Holocaust is why the curriculum has been named ZACHOR. To learn more about the ZACHOR Holocaust Curriculum, teachers and anyone else who is interested may visit https://zachorlearn.org.
