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Holocaust Education: Teaching
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Proponents of the particularist position, including Lucy Dawidowicz and Deborah Lipstadt, view Holocaust education as an end onto itself. They see the Holocaust as a unique historical phenomenon that cannot be compared to any other event in history. Though it may be true that the Holocaust stemmed from intolerance, it was an intolerance of a specific type, namely, antisemitism. To the particularists, to only approach the Holocaust from the viewpoint of intolerance begs the question of why the Jews, as opposed to other minorities, were singled out for total annihilation by the Nazis. Therefore, for the particularists, it is critical for students, not just to explore intolerance, but to delve into the long history of persecution of Jews by the Christianity and the Church. It is only through an understanding the long and tortuous history of religious persecution that can students grasp the fertile environment that allowed for the growth of the “scientific” racial antisemitism that reached a crescendo in Nazi Germany.
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Matthew has been involved with Holocaust Education Week since 2005, after participating in March of the Living in Spring 2005. He is the national chair of Students Helping Others Understand Tolerance (SHOUT) for the 2005-06 season and for the coming 2006-07 season. Matthew graduated from Dalhousie University in Halifax in with a Combined Honours in English and Political Science.
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Holocaust commemoration and education is an important function of the SAJBD. The Board works closely in this regard with other Jewish organisations active in that field, including the Cape Town Holocaust Centre and the SA National Yad Vashem Memorial Foundation.
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Education World provides 10 lesson plans for teaching about the Holocaust. Included: Activities that involve students in creating time lines and ABC books, writing poetry and letters, and learning about Anne Frank and Holocaust rescuers.
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Located on a low bookshelf in Curriculum Materials Center, this collection provides Holocaust Education resources for teachers. Additional Holocaust materials are available in the Library’s general collection, and a selected list of significant websites useful for teaching about the Holocaust is available online. If you are looking for something specific, use the "Edit"/"Find" option on your browser now to look for particular words in this list.
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HEAP is an acronym for a "H[O]locaust Education and Avoidance Pod", a concept created by author Neal Stephenson in his book Cryptonomicon. The HEAP is basically an instruction manual on guerilla warfare, designed to be distributed among peoples at risk of becoming the victims of genocide or ethnic cleansing.
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