Teaching the Holocaust: CANDLES Holocaust Education Trip

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/

Teaching the Holocaust

Sunday, October 11, 2015

CANDLES Holocaust Education Trip

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