Holocaust education
Teaching Nazi atrocities
Holocaust education is instruction about the systematic genocide of six million Jews and millions of others by Nazi Germany during World War II.
It typically covers the historical events, the mechanisms of persecution, and the experiences of victims and survivors.
The field emphasizes remembrance, critical thinking about propaganda and prejudice, and lessons about human rights: Holocaust education is mandatory in many European countries.
- genocideSystematic annihilation of a people
- memorialsTributes to the departed
- antisemitismBigotry toward Jewish people
- toleranceWillingness to accept difference
- teacher trainingEducation for future educators
concentration camps · oral histories · bearing witness · camp survivors · survivor testimonies · Shoah · human rights · Nazi ideology · critical thinking · primary sources · anniversaries · archives · museums · ghettos · empathy · moral responsibility · historical trauma · second generation
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- HolocaustAuschwitz, concentration camps, gas chambers, Shoah, Anne Frank
- WWIID-Day, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, Hiroshima, atomic bomb
- Israeli schoolselementary, high school, high schools, kindergarten, kindergartens
- Jewish continuityJewish identity, Jewish community, Jewish values, family traditions, holiday traditions
- Jewish DiasporaJewish community, dispersion, Ashkenazi Jews, crypto-Jews, Babylonian exile
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