Online School Zoom bookings with Sydney Jewish Museum
The Holocaust (Shoah) is taught in Year 10 History and Year 10 RE only
Ask the FIARE team about Professional Learning opportunities with the Sydney Jewish Museum
What Did Jesus Look Like? Reclaiming Jesus the Jew in Art and Religious Education
When Jesus was an Aryan: Rediscovering Jesus the Jew in Religious Education
Where Was Jesus Born? Challenges for Religious Educators Teaching the Infancy Narratives
Creating Judas Iscariot: Critical Questions for Presenting the Betrayer of Jesus
Repairing the Teaching of Contempt: Jules Isaac's Contribution to Jewish-Catholics Relations
Holocaust Education and Religious Education in Australia Catholic Schools
Resources
Teaching about Jesus' time and place
Brisbane Catholic Education RED PD Teaching Judaism
The Jewish Roman World of Jesus
From Jesus to Christ (PBS series) - Jews and the Roman Empire
Purchase Jewish artifacts for educational purposes
For Year 10, 11 and 12 RE and History
The Holocaust - Sydney Jewish Museum resource
The word Holocaust, and the Hebrew word Shoah (“catastrophe”) are used to denote the fate of the Jews during the Nazi era. The terms encompass the state-orchestrated vilification, persecution and annihilation of six million Jews, including more than one million children. About one-third of the world’s Jewish population was murdered.
The Nazis labelled the destruction of Jewish life and Jewish spirit, in their view socialism, democracy, and the Judeo-Christian roots of Western civilisation, as the Endlosung der Judenfrage (The Final Solution of the Jewish Question).
Although most of the killings of Jews occurred during the Second World War (1939 to 1945), these crimes were planned and implemented independently of the war effort. The Jewish victims were not incidental casualties of warfare. They were ruthlessly hunted down and exterminated because of their ethnic and religious identity. The murder of the Jews was as brutal as it was thorough; all Jewish women, children and men were to be killed, without exception.The deliberate killing of people because of their supposed ‘race’ was a crime that came to be known as ‘genocide’.