Bring Us to Your School

The Mitzvah Project is a high-engagement, Holocaust-themed theatrical-educational program for high school and college students.

Professional actors with “lived experience” of the Holocaust in their families and trained as Teaching Artists, immerse students in a historically accurate and deeply personal on-stage journey.

Teaching Artists also engage students in a “talk back.” Students can openly ask their questions, make connections with today’s issues of prejudice and marginalization, and consider how to be more compassionate and create more equality in their lives and in our world.

The Mitzvah Project is aggressively expanding its reach. Teaching Artists will reach more than 5,000 students across the country this year and 8,000 students in 2026.

How it Works

  • Schools invite The Mitzvah Project to teach and engage  hundreds — sometimes thousands — of their students.

  • We provide a powerful study guide, developed with a Museum of Jewish Heritage educator, that teachers use in the classroom *before* we show up.

  • Ongoing and extensive outreach to school district leaders,   principals, and teachers across urban, suburban, and rural areas in all 50 states.

  • More than 500 schools and educators are reached each year.

  • The Teaching Artist then creates a powerful, in-person   experience - a one-act solo play, lecture, and talk-back - which electrifies the students and makes the critical lessons of the Holocaust come alive in a way no textbook can.

  • The Mitzvah Project is offered to all public high schools *free of charge*.

Our Impact

Students

come away from The Mitzvah Project experience with a new perspective and understanding of the Holocaust that no textbook or movie can match.

  • “Something I will never forget.”
    — Miranda, Central High School, Omaha

  • “Amazing and inspiring! It lit a spark in me.”
    — Carol, Quincy High School, Quincy, CA

  • “I hope The Mitzvah Project reaches as many people as possible and has the same impact it had on me!”
    — Abby, Shaker Heights High School, Ohio

  • “As a young woman of color, the diary of Anne Frank now has more meaning.”
    — Nayeli, Sonoma State University, CA

Educators

have new and powerful resources and think differently about Holocaust education.

  • “My students were totally overwhelmed (in a good way) after experiencing The Mitzvah Project… we had 45 minutes of solid questions! We need more of this!”
    — Sakina Bryant, Writing Center Faculty Director, Sonoma State University

  • “Compelling and thought-provoking.” 
    — Janice Ross, Superintendent, Brooklyn North High Schools, NY

  • “A great opportunity and experience for our students.”  
    — Laura Myrah, Superintendent, Arrowhead Union High School District, Hartland, WI

Superintendents

think differently about Holocaust education.

  • ”Compelling and thought-provoking.”
    — Janice Ross, Superintendent, Brooklyn North High Schools, NY

  • “A great opportunity and experience for our students.”
    — Laura Myrah, Superintendent, Arrowhead Union High School District, Hartland, WI

To bring The Mitzvah Project to your high school or college, please fill out the form on the right. We will respond to you within one business day.

Thank you!

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