And Every Single One Was Someone

About this book

Featured on the front page of the Sunday New York Times Six million. The number is familiar. The reality is almost impossible to comprehend. How do we begin to understand the loss of six million Jewish lives in the Holocaust? Seeking a meaningful way to answer that question for his students educator Phil Chernofsky created a book unlike any other. And Every Single One Was Someone contains a single word printed six million times: Jew. Each word represents one Jewish man woman or child murdered in the Holocaust. Page after page the repetition becomes overwhelming. What begins as a number gradually becomes something deeply personal. Readers are invited to pause choose a single word on a single page and remember that behind every one of the six million stood a unique individual with a name a family dreams and a life cut short. Used in schools libraries synagogues museums and Holocaust education programs this remarkable volume has become a powerful tool for teaching one of historys greatest tragedies in a way that statistics alone cannot. More than a book And Every Single One Was Someone is a memorial an educational experience and a profound reminder that every victim of the Holocaust was someone.