Teaching the Holocaust: October 2015

Sunday, October 11, 2015

ABC Channel's Milgram Experiment remake

Can normal people commit horrendous acts?
When do people refuse to follow orders?
How do men and women's actions compare in the Milgram Experiment?

CANDLES Holocaust Education Trip

Eva Mozes Kor

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/