As the generation of Holocaust survivors diminishes, a pressing question confronts Jewish educators worldwide: how do we ensure that memory does not fade into abstraction?

For decades, Holocaust education has relied on testimony, historical study, and memorialisation. These remain essential. But for younger students — particularly in primary school — the challenge is different. Before they can understand the scale of the Holocaust, they must first connect to it as a human story.

If they do not feel it, they will not remember it.

That is the challenge that led us to develop In My Pocket, a Holocaust education initiative that is now expanding from Australia and South Africa into the United Kingdom and Europe.

At its core is a simple question: What would you take with you if you had to leave home suddenly?

It is a question that immediately shifts the conversation. Instead of beginning........

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