HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY: MY SONG "6,000,000" AS A POEM, WITH LESSON PLAN

Hank Fellows is an ASCAP Award-winning songwriter whose patriotic and inspirational songs have been performed hundreds of times across America. In 2006, Hank wrote his song "6,000,000" as a remembrance to the victims of the Nazi concentration camps, as well as to the hundreds of thousands of victims of genocide in our own time. The first public performance of "6,000,000" was at the New Jersey State House in 2006 at a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony. Since then, "6,000,000" has been performed numerous times at Holocaust Education and Holocaust Remembrance Day programs. This TpT resource contains the "6,000,000" song's lyrics as a contemporary poem, and includes a Lesson Plan for closer analysis and discussion of this song, including an opportunity to write an additional verse for this song. A free professional vocal/instrumental recording of "6,000,000" can be accessed from Hank's website address included in the Lesson Plan to further enhance classroom discussion. The study of "6,000,000" and its lyrics is ideal for Holocaust Memorial Day, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and for the study of the Holocaust in US History and European History, and Social Studies classes. This resource also adds a contemporary viewpoint to the study of "Night" by Elie Wiesel, and to the study of genocide in Bosnia, Rwanda, Darfur, and Cambodia.