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A Bar/Bat Mitzvah marks the beginning of a child's lifelong adult connection to the Jewish people. The Twinning Program is an increasingly popular way to strengthen a child's identification with Jewish heritage by forging bonds with individual children who were murdered during the Holocaust. Choosing to participate in the program offers the opportunity to remember and learn about the life of a child who was murdered during the Holocaust.
Yad Vashem offers two options for participation in the Twinning Program:
Make Your Child's Bar/Bat Mitzvah more Meaningful from Home
Yad Vashem is offering easy access to this unique initiative from anywhere in the world.
Your child will be twinned with a child who did not have a chance to mark this important rite of passage. The child being remembered will share something with the participant – a birthday, a name or place of origin.
A customized Twinning Kit containing the Page of Testimony of the "twin" and immediate family members, as well as a study guide and a special certificate acknowledging participation in the Twinning Program will be sent to the Bar/Bat Mitzvah child. The Twinning Kit also includes a memoir written by a Holocaust survivor, a personal letter from a Holocaust survivor, a bookmark and a personal link (QR Code) to a virtual Bar/Bat Mitzvah tour of the Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem, filmed especially for this project.
The cost of the Twinning Kit is $220. Your kit will arrive within 28 business days of ordering.
To participate in the Twinning Program from home, click here.
Bar/Bat Mitzvah Tour at Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem has developed a special tour in the Holocaust History Museum to mark the occasion of a Bar or Bat Mitzvah. The tour focuses on the fate of children and teenagers, and on the challenges that faced the Jewish family during the Holocaust. At the end of the tour the Bar Mitzvah boy or Bat Mitzvah girl receives a special certificate commemorating a boy or girl whose memory they have chosen to remember.
To reserve a Bar/Bat Mitzvah tour at Yad Vashem, click here.
If you are a travel agent, click here.
For details about the "Shlichei Zikaron" program
(available in Israel only).
