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Holocaust Memorial Service Is Written for Children'
By ROCHELLE WOLK
NEW HAVEN (JTA) — A
Holocaust memorial service
for children, hailed as the
first of its kind by its author,
has been written by Marcia
Smith Barnestein, a Heb-
rew teacher at Ezra
Academy in New Haven,
Connecticut.
Mrs. Barnestein told the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that she wrote her service,
"Al Hashoah V'al
HaGevurah — On the
Holocaust and Heroism" to
fill a void that she felt
existed.
"I've been thinking of
writing something of this
nature for many years," she
said, "because I've learned
through my teaching ex-
perience that even kinder-
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garten children can grasp
some knowledge of the
Holocaust." Mrs. Barnes-
tein has been developing
special Holocaust lessons
for children in Hebrew day
schools in Albany, N.Y. and
New Haven for the past
seven years, and has suc-
ceeded in teaching the sub-
ject to children as young as
five-years-old.
that she wanted to em-
phasize to young children
that the Holocaust really
happened and that it hap-
pened within the lifetime of
their parents and grandpa-
rents.
"Ultimately, one of my
major goals is that all
people should be better
human beings and never let
this happen again," she
said.
The service begins with a
candle lighting ceremony in
memory of the Six Million.
The children are then told,
"This really happened. It is
all true. It is part of our
Jewish history. It happened
when your own mother and
father were tiny or when
your grandparents were
young." Hitler is described
as a "crazy, mad man" who
wanted all Jews killed be-
cause "their only crime was
being Jewish. Imagine, they
were to die just because they
were different."
The lack of existing
material for young chil-
dren on the Holocaust
prompted Mrs. Barnes-
tein to write her presen-
tation, which is geared to
children aged 5 through
12. While working with
the New Haven
Holocaust Committee on
a method of presenting a
service for children, she
found "absolutely no-
thing" that was approp-
riate and decided that the
time had come for her to
"do something about it."
In writing her presenta-
tion, Mrs. Barnestein said
sans," "America, the
Beautiful" and a poem by
Nobel Prize winner Nellie
Sachs are alto included.
Mrs. Barnestein said that
she "absolutely, very con-
sciously left out specific at-
rocities" and instead used
symbols that the children
could understand. The ser-
vice has already been pre-
sented at several New
Haven area synagogues.
Mrs. Bamestein said that
she is gratified, from chil-
dren's reactions, that her
service has been a "signific-
ant and meaningful experi-
ence" for them.
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