Planning Observances for Military Audiences

April 19 - April 26

The following resources are intended to provide support in planning remembrance activities for military audiences.

Witness Holocaust Survivor Fanny Aizenberg as she shares her testimony with students from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and Princeton University.
Read about the theme for Days of Remembrance, 2009, "Never Again: What You Do Matters".
Download theme text and use it as part of your commemoration.
Read suggestions for Organizing a Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Plan an educational program in conjunction with Days of Remembrance using multimedia resources for military personnel
(discussion questions, survivor testimony, maps, podcasts, and other Museum resources).
Print a poster to advertise your Days of Remembrance event(s).
Create a poster display by downloading high-resolution historic images and maps.
Play an Animated Map to provide historical context on the Holocaust and World War II.
Download PowerPoint presentation of historic images and maps
(PPT format/2.2MB).
Print Identification Cards describing the experiences of individuals who experienced the Holocaust.

Arrange a survivor presentation to experience the power of eyewitness testimony.
Share Your Ideas and planned activities with other members of the U.S. Armed Forces
Download 2009 Days of Remembrance stickers to print and hand out during your ceremony.

Women and children survivors in Mauthausen speak to an American liberator through a barbed wire fence. Mauthausen, Austria. May 05, 1945-May 07, 1945.
USHMM, National Archives and Records Administration

Download the 2009 Days of Remembrance Poster

11" x 17" [PDF format]
Print 100% scale if you have capability to print tabloid-size.
8.5" x 11" [PDF format]