ABSTRACT

Sensitive and appropriate teaching of the Holocaust is essential at all levels of formal and informal education. The Holocaust Education Reader by Ronnie Landau provides an educational companion for all those teaching this subject.
The book is designed to challenge student use of primary resources and encourage extra-disciplinary analysis.
This authoritative guide contains:
* a guide to major dilemmas confronting teachers
* documentary and literary selected readings
* suggested teaching activities
* an analysis of 'genocide' in the modern era
* a chronology of the period
* selected bibliography, list of principal characters and a glossary of important terms.

part |2 pages

PART I READINGS AND EXERCISES

part |1 pages

PART II SELECTED KEY DOCUMENTS

chapter 1|2 pages

‘The Racists’ Ten Commandments’

chapter 2|3 pages

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

chapter 3|1 pages

The Balfour Declaration (2 November 1917)

chapter 6|2 pages

The Nuremberg Laws

chapter 7|2 pages

An eyewitness response to Kristallnacht

chapter 9|1 pages

Hitler threatens Jews with annihilation

chapter 11|1 pages

The Warsaw Ghetto: The Jewish response

chapter 12|3 pages

The Wannsee Conference

chapter 14|2 pages

Appeal to the outside world

chapter 15|5 pages

Inside the mind of a perpetrator

chapter 16|2 pages

The victims: Defiant responses

chapter 17|2 pages

Spiritual resistance

chapter 18|2 pages

The psychology of the victim

chapter |24 pages

PART III GENOCIDE IN THE MODERN ERA

part |1 pages

PART IV QUESTIONS, THEMES AND READING LISTS

chapter 1|4 pages

Historical background and context

chapter 2|4 pages

The Holocaust: A history

chapter 3|5 pages

Themes, issues and protagonists

chapter |7 pages

PART VI REFERENCE SECTIONS