ABSTRACT

Remembering the Holocaust in Educational Settings brings together a group of international experts to investigate the relationship between Holocaust remembrance and different types of educational activity through consideration of how education has become charged with preserving and perpetuating Holocaust memory and an examination of the challenges and opportunities this presents.

The book is divided into two key parts. The first part considers the issues of and approaches to the remembrance of the Holocaust within an educational setting, with essays covering topics such as historical culture, genocide education, familial narratives, the survivor generation, and memory spaces in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany. In the second part, contributors explore a wide range of case studies within which education and Holocaust remembrance interact, including young people’s understanding of the Holocaust in Germany, Polish identity narratives, Shoah remembrance and education in Israel, the Holocaust and Genocide Centre of Education and Memory in South Africa, and teaching at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.

An international and interdisciplinary exploration of how and why the Holocaust is remembered through educational activity, Remembering the Holocaust in Educational Settings is the ideal book for all students, scholars, and researchers of the history and memory of the Holocaust as well as those studying and working within Holocaust education.

chapter |22 pages

Introduction: Education, remembrance, and the Holocaust

Towards pedagogic memory-work

part |118 pages

Issues, approaches, spaces

chapter 1|15 pages

Lessons at the limits

On learning Holocaust history in historical culture

chapter 2|20 pages

The anatomy of a relationship

The Holocaust, genocide, and education in Britain

chapter 3|16 pages

Väterliteratur

Remembering, writing, and reconciling the familial past 1

chapter 6|15 pages

Imperial War Museums

Reflecting and shaping Holocaust memory

chapter 7|19 pages

Beyond learning facts

Teaching commemoration as an educational task in German memorial sites for the victims of National Socialist crimes

part |116 pages

National perspectives, contexts, and case studies

chapter 9|15 pages

Who was the victim and who was the saviour?

The Holocaust in Polish identity narratives

chapter 10|16 pages

Conveying the message of Holocaust survivors

Shoah remembrance and education in Israel

chapter 11|15 pages

Holocaust education in the US

A pre-history, 1939–1960

chapter 12|16 pages

The presence of the past

Creating a new Holocaust and Genocide Centre of Education and Memory in post-Apartheid South Africa 1

chapter 13|18 pages

Educational bridges to the intangible

An Australian perspective to teaching and learning about the Holocaust

chapter 14|18 pages

Myths, misconceptions, and mis-memory

Holocaust education in England