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How to talk to children about the Holocaust
- אילנה כהנא, הדרכת הורים | אימון אישי
- Mar 9
- 1 min read
A conversation about the Holocaust...
And I read them the story about Ruby.
"Why did this happen?" she asked me. So we talked about hate, and love, and we talked about healthy jealousy and destructive jealousy, and about exclusion that can lead to tragedy.
"But why kill?" "And why didn’t our army kill them?" And then the realization that we didn’t yet have a country or an army as they know it.
How do you explain the incomprehensible?
What exists today... decades later, no one fully understands...
So I answered from the heart... "I don’t understand why either..."
And then ideas for a possible solution came up.
"They could have talked, reached a mutual solution..."
And redemption came to Zion...
And we talked about the Declaration of Independence, about how "sweetness came out of bitterness." We listened to excerpts from the UN resolution.
And suddenly they understood the meaning of the words:
"The hope of 2,000 years, to be a free people in our land..."
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