Teaching the Holocaust: Einsatzgruppen

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Einsatzgruppen

When Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, mobile killing units, known as Einsatzgruppen, began moving from town to town, rounding up Jews for extermination. In 2004, Father Patrick Desbois traveled across Ukraine to locate the estimated 2,500 sites of mass killings of Jews during the Holocaust. He was motivated by the memory of his own grandfather, a French soldier who was deported to the Ukraine by the Nazis.

The Holocaust by Bullets by Father Patrick DesBois
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1df0D5nI5E
Podcast: http://www.ushmm.org/media/audio/antisemitism/20071108.mp3

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10 Guidelines for Teaching about the Holocaust (USHMM)

1. Define the term "Holocaust."

2. Do not teach or imply that the Holocaust was inevitable.

3. Avoid simple answers to complex questions.

4. Strive for Precision of Language.

5. Strive for balance in establishing whose perspective informs your study of the Holocaust.

6. Avoid comparisons of pain.

7. Do not romanticize history.

8. Contextualize the history.

9. Translate statistics into people.

10. Make responsible methodological choices.

http://www/ushmm.org/education/foreducators/guideline/