Understanding and teaching the Holocaust / edited by Laura Hilton and Avinoam Patt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: teaching the Holocaust in the twenty-first century: challenges and necessity / Laura Hilton and Avinoam Patt -- Part One: Teaching Specific Content. Antisemitism: understanding its meaning, context, and history when teaching the Holocaust / Jonathan Elukin -- The rise of Nazism / Mark E. Spicka -- Legislation as a path to persecution / Russel Lemmons and Laura J. Hilton -- Jewish responses to Nazism in Vienna after the Anschluss / Ilana Offenberger -- Understanding the Holocaust in the context of the Second World War / Waitman Wade Beorn -- Tools of the state: the universe of Nazi camps / Geoffrey P. Megargee -- The decentralized system of Nazi ghettos in eastern Europe / Martin Dean -- Teaching about collaboration: a case study approach / Steven P. Remy -- Resistance and rescue / Laura J. Hilton -- Life in the aftermath: Jewish displaced persons / Avinoam Patt -- Postwar trails and justice / Gabriel N. Finder -- Part Two: Sources, Methods, and Media for Teaching the Holocaust. Teaching with Holocaust diaries: voices from the chasm / Amy Simon -- Strategies for teaching the Holocaust with memoirs / Jennifer Goss -- Teaching Holocaust literature in the twenty-first century / Victoria Aarons -- The grey zone of Holocaust education: teaching with film / Alan Marcus -- Survivor testimonies and interviews / Margarete Myers Feinstein -- Photographs / Valerie Hébert -- Teaching the Holocaust in museums / Daniel Greene -- Memorials, monuments, and the obligation of memory / Stuart Abrams -- Why should we teach the Holocaust today and tomorrow? / Robert Hadley.

"Few topics in modern history draw the attention that the Holocaust does. The Shoah has become synonymous with unspeakable atrocity and unbearable suffering. Yet it has also been used to teach tolerance, empathy, resistance, and hope. Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust provides a starting point for teachers in many disciplines to illuminate this crucial event in world history for students. Using a vast array of source materials--from literature and film to survivor testimonies and interviews--the contributors demonstrate how to guide students through these sensitive and painful subjects within their specific historical and social contexts. Each chapter provides pedagogical case studies for teaching content such as antisemitism, resistance and rescue, and the postwar lives of displaced persons. It will transform how students learn about the Holocaust and the circumstances surrounding it."

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