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Across the country, healthcare workers and advocates are brainstorming ways to get the COVID-19 vaccine into the arms of the people who need it most. In Arizona, organizers launched a grassroots effort to vaccinate the state’s Holocaust survivors. An estimated 55 survivors, along with their spouses, partners and caretakers, have been vaccinated through a collaborative program run by the Phoenix Holocaust Association.
KNAU reported on this mission to vaccinate a population that’s survived war, displacement and genocide.
Frieda Allweiss was eight years old when she and her mother fled their home in Poland to escape the Nazis.
“We traveled all the way to Uzbekistan to get away from Hitler,” Allweiss remembers. “Traveled many thousands of miles to get away. And it was not easy, you know.”
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As survivors pass on, more Holocaust education could be headed to Arizona classrooms Arizona Rep. Alma Hernandez, D-Tucson, introduced a bill that would require Holocaust education aimed at clarifying misconceptions that today’s students may have about World War II, such as how it started, who the perpetrators were and how many people were killed. (Source: Cronkite News) By Kelly Donohue | March 8, 2021 at 12:42 PM MST - Updated March 8 at 12:42 PM
PHOENIX – Arizona students haven’t been properly taught about the Holocaust in recent years, according to a recent poll conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Among Arizona millennials surveyed in March 2020, 42% could not name a single concentration camp the Nazis built to detain and exterminate Jews and others deemed undesirable.
Rep. Alma Hernandez’s bill, which would require Holocaust be taught at least twice from the seventh to the 12th grade, has Arizonans talking about Holocaust education in grade schools.
Protecting Holocaust survivors is uniquely important. They represent survival and resilience — and most importantly, they are the remaining eyewitnesses to the horrors of the Holocaust. As eyewitnesses, they are