Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust

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.

Author: Laura Hilton
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 12/06/2022
Pages: 386
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.43w x 0.94d
ISBN13: 9780299328641
ISBN10: 0299328643
BISAC Categories:
- History | Study & Teaching
- History | Modern | 20th Century | Holocaust
- History | Jewish | General

About the Author
Laura Hilton is a professor of history at Muskingum University, where she has taught courses on the Holocaust for sixteen years. Avinoam Patt is the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies and Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Finding Home and Homeland: Jewish Youth and Zionism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust.