ABSTRACT
How can you create a historical discipline out of such recent and painful experiences? Where can you locate the abundant historical material on the subject and how can it be organized? How can you transform the pain and the shock into an academic discipline? What should be taught at the courses and where can you get the text-books and the readings for the students? The first researchers had to find answers to questions like these, in order to launch work and make a progress. They had to determine the research goals and their priorities, to locate the appropriate means for this research, and to mould its character. This chapter will deal with the agenda and the goals set up by these people and others for academic Holocaust research and education. It was a previously unexplored field and the projects for Holocaust research developed in parallel with the research itself.
