How to explain Remembrance Day to children?

Dear mothers, on January 27 the day of remembrance is celebrated all over the world, this commemoration must be told and handed down to children even if it is difficult to tell small children about the terror, death and persecution.

What does the day of remembrance represent?

At the end of the Second World War on January 27, 1945 the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland was liberated, for this reason the day of remembrance is celebrated all over the world on this date, it is an international anniversary that every year commemorates the victims of Holocaust or the destruction of an ethnic group between 1938 and 1945. The Nazi government, led by Adolf Hitler, sowed terror and extermination, especially Jews were locked up and killed in Nazi concentration camps. It is important to remember and pass on the celebration of Remembrance Day to children because this commemoration helps to remember and never repeat the mistakes of the past. Obviously with children it is advisable to find an approach that is not traumatic, you can try to approach this issue by proposing some films suitable for children such as "life is beautiful by Roberto Benigni" avoiding to show the little ones raw and sad drops.

The day of remembrance: poems for children

It is important to talk to the children about the day of remembrance, passing on this anniversary is important to prevent this horror from repeating itself, but we must approach the children without traumatizing them, perhaps even proposing current issues such as racism. Now let's see together some poems suitable for children for the celebration of Remembrance Day:

There were men ...

There were men, women and kids

there were old people and mothers with children.

There were tears and memories of distant lives

there was pain, misery and inhuman violence.

There were punishments, forced labor and soldiers

there were silences, dirty and sick men.

There were armies, barbed wire and cold prisons

there were uniforms, engraved numbers and executions.

There were hardships, hunger and disease

there were ghettos, camps and epidemics.

There were thoughts and existences that were too short

there were throbbing expectations in promises of death.

There were hearts broken by final goodbyes

there were visions of sunsets for those still alive.

There were shame hanging from a violent intellect

but also dreams and hopes until the last lament.

(Maria Ruggi)

January 27

Nursery rhyme of memory

to remember a bad story

written in ominous ink:

the black page of the Holocaust.

A mad man took over

and the ax of extermination fell.

Men, women, old people, children

they burned quickly like matches.

I dream that all racism burns

inside the fire of altruism,

I dream of the birth of new ideals

where men are all the same.

(Giuseppe Bordi)

If this is a man

You who live safe

In your warm homes,

you who find returning in the evening

Hot food and friendly faces:

Consider if this is a man

Working in the mud

Who knows no peace

What a struggle for half bread

Who dies for a yes or a no.

Consider if this is a woman,

Without hair and without a name

With no more strength to remember

Your eyes empty and your womb cold

Like a frog in winter.

Meditate that this was:

I command you these words.

Carve them into your heart

Staying at home on the way,

Lying down and getting up;

Repeat them to your children.

Or the house breaks down,

Illness prevent you,

Your births twist their faces from you.

(Primo Levi)

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