Planning Observances for Military Audiences

2012 Days of Remembrance: April 15–22

For the Organizer

• Why We Remember [VIDEO]
• Request a free CD/DVD Days of Remembrance planning resource
• View “How to” videos to help plan a commemoration
  Organizing a Commemoration
  Hosting a Holocaust Survivor
  Organize your own Names Reading Ceremony
  
• Sample Observance for Military Audiences [PDF]
• Share and view ideas and planned activities of other observances in the U.S. Armed Forces

Resources for Planning a Commemoration

• Organize a Names Reading ceremony
• Personal Histories from the Holocaust [PDF]
• Guidelines for hosting a Holocaust Survivor [PDF]
• Sample questions for interviewing Holocaust Survivors [PDF]
• Play Animated Maps to provide historical context on the Holocaust and World War II [FLASH]
• Liberation special focus
• Witness Holocaust Survivor Fanny Aizenberg as she shares her testimony with students from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and Princeton University
• View the reunion of Holocaust survivors with their American liberators and hear how they are being honored today [VIDEO]

Historical Photograph Displays

• The Holocaust (21 panels)
  Posters [PDF]
  Presentation [PPT]
  
• Liberation 1945 (10 panels)
  Posters [PDF]
  Presentation [PPT]
  

Historical Overview Articles [PDF]

• The Holocaust
• The Third Reich
• World War II in Europe
• Liberation of Nazi Camps
• The Aftermath of the Holocaust
• What is Genocide?

Inmates waving a homemade American flag greet 7th Army troops upon their arrival at the Allach concentration camp, a subcamp of Dachau, April 30, 1945. USHMM, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD.

Download the 2012 Days of Remembrance Poster

• 11” x 17” [PDF format]
  Print 100% scale if you have capability to print tabloid-size.
• 8.5” x 11” [PDF format]
• 24” x 36” [PDF format]

Additional Resources

• Suggested questions for discussion and reflection [PDF]
• Use the Museum’s extensive collection of maps to trace the locations of significant events
• Learn in-depth with online features
• Holocaust Encyclopedia
• Podcast about Holocaust history’s ongoing relevance to the military community