Hanukkah worksheets

Worksheets and coloring pages for Hanukkah. The pages are suitable for children in pre-school kindergarten and for children in the lower grades. The theme that the worksheets focus on is Hanukkah and they practice reading and writing the most prominent symbols of Hanukkah and winter, Hanukkah  customs and food.

Hanukkah is a Jewish festival commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire. It is also known as the Festival of Lights.

PS- To save paper and help our planet, you can print on used pages, on the blank side ♥

Maze for Hanukkah

Words for Hanukkah

Find the correct shadow

Numbers for Hanukkah

Find the differences (Solution)

Sudoku for Hanukkah 3X3

Sudoku for Hanukkah 3X3

Sudoku for Hanukkah 3X3

 Sudoku for Hanukkah 3X3

Sudoku for Hanukkah 4X4

Sudoku for Hanukkah 4X4

I Spy for Hanukkah

International Holocaust Remembrance Day – January 27

January 27 was chosen unanimously in 2005 by the United Nations General Assembly as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On that date in 1945, the Red Army entered the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex and liberated the 7500 remnants of the detainees, those who somehow survived the atrocities inflicted on them by the Nazi camp guardians. Since 2005, International Holocaust Remembrance day is observed annually by the United Nations member states in commemoration of that event and in honor of the victims and the survivors of the Holocaust.

Some facts you should know about the Holocaust

·         Approximately one third of the Jewish people in the world, about 6 million men, women and children were massacred by the Nazis and their accomplices during the Holocaust. Altogether it is estimated that about 11 million people were murdered by the Nazis in the holocaust.

·         Beside Jews, the Nazis persecuted and murdered Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah Witnesses crippled people and other minority groups, sending them to forced labor and extermination camp. Millions of people of all ages belonging to these groups as well anyone suspected of resistance to the Nazi regime were ruthlessly murdered.

·         At least 1.1 million children were slaughtered by the Nazis and their accomplices during the Holocaust.

·         In October 1941, more than 50,000 civilians, most of them Jews, were brutally murdered by Rumanian Fascist forces under the orders of Lieutenant-Colonel Nicolae Deleanu who participated personally in the carnage. The event is known as the Odessa Massacre.

·         In 1945, General Dwight D. Eisenhower(who was the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force during World War II and later served as president of the United States) foresaw the forthcoming attempts to deny the Holocaust. He therefore summoned press reporters to witness the effects of the atrocities inflicted by the Nazis on their victims.

·         Bergen-Belsen, the concentration camp in which Anne Frankperished, was liberated by British troops a few weeks after her death.

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 Japan allowed Jewish refugees shelter within its borders in spite of protests by Nazi Germany, Japan's military ally during the war.

·         Hitler planned to collect thousands of personal artifacts that were pillaged from the Jews who were deported from Bohemia and Moravia to extermination camps in order to create a "museum of anextinct race" after the war.

·         Hitler never set foot in a concentration camp.

·         Witold Pilecki, a Roman Catholic Polish soldier who served as a member of the Polishresistance, volunteered to be imprisoned in the Auschwitz death camp in 1941 in order to gather intelligence, escape and inform the Allied forces of the Nazi atrocities carried out in the camp. He managed to escape after nearly two and a half years of imprisonment and presented the Allies an official report known as Witold's Report.

·       The Mosque in Paris helped Jews escape the Nazis by providing them with false Islamic identities during World  War II.

·         Denial of the Holocaust is considered a crime in seventeen countries, including Germany and Austria.

·         More than 870,000 Jews were murdered in Treblinka by a staff of no more than 150 members.

·         Descendants of a Moslem family who gave shelter to Jews in Bosnia during the holocaust were later rescued by Israel during the Bosnian genocidein1995. They immigrated to Israel and converted to Judaism.



And last but not least, here's a fact not known to many of us:

Dr. Ernst Leitz II, header of the Leitz optics company and  producer of the Leica cameras, along side with his daughter, saved hundreds of Jewish employees of his company and their families who were persecuted by the Nazi regime under the Nuremberg Laws. He did this in the years 1938-1939 by assigning those employees to sales departments abroad, mainly in the United States, England, France and Hong Kong in an operation known as the Leica Freedom Train. Elsie Kuehn-Leittz, Ernst's daughter, was caught and imprisoned by the Gestapo but was eventually freed. For her and her father's humanitarian efforts, she was awarded numerous honors after the war had ended. See also a short video on Youtube on this subject.



 More pertinent fact about the Holocaust can be found on the Web, as for example in the following recommended link.

Purim​ Coloring Pages

Coloring pages of Purim. Purimis a Jewish holiday which commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from Haman, an Achaemenid Persian Empire official who was planning to kill all the Jews, as recounted in the Book of Esther.

Haman was the royal vizier to King Ahasuerus and he planned to kill all the Jews in the empire. His plans were foiled by Mordecai and Esther, his cousin and adopted daughter who had become Queen of Persia. The day of deliverance became a day of feasting and rejoicing.

Purim is celebrated among Jews by: exchanging gifts of food and drink known as mishloach manot, donating charity to the poor known as mattanot la-evyonim, eating a celebratory meal known as a se'udat Purim, public recitation of the Scroll of Esther, known as kriat ha-megillah, usually in synagogue, reciting additions to the daily prayers and the grace after meals, known as Al HaNissim.

Other customs include wearing masks and costumes, public celebrations and parades (Adloyada), and eating hamantaschen. Men are encouraged to drink wine or any other alcoholic beverage.

Here are the coloring pages of Purim. Choose the drawing of Purim that you want to paint, print and color for your enjoyment. If it failed or you want to paint differently and use other colors, no problem, you can go back and print again.

To print the page you would like to color, click on page and then click Ctrl+P. Have fun!

Princess Party Ball Gown Costume

Yom Kippur Greeting cards

Beautiful and special greeting cards for Yom Kippur of helpful fasting, a good signing finale and also of forgiveness for Yom Kippur and for ordinary days (it is always a good time to apologize if necessary). The most popular blessings for Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement is: "Gmar Chatima Tova", which means literally: A good final sealing, and idiomatically: May you be inscribed (in the Book of Life) for Good. It's also common to bless with "May you have an easy and meaningful fast", because it's important that the fast will be helpful and with internal meaning and not just easy. 

Here you can find greeting cards for Yom Kippur you can share and send to other people. Gmar Chatima Tova and have a blessed good year.

Yom Kippur​ Coloring Pages - Jewish ​Day of Atonement

Drawings of Yom Kippur- the Jewish the Day of Atonement,  the holiest day of the year in Judaism.

Here you will find coloring pages for Yom Kippur. Printable coloring sheets for free you can come back to print and color again and again. You can paint in any colors you want. Choose the coloring page of Yom Kippur you want to paint, print and paint for your enjoyment. To print the page you would like to color, click on page and then click Ctrl+P. Have fun!