Teaching the Holocaust to High School Students
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The Rape of Europa, now available
on DVD. Check out the film's website at
www.menemshafilms.com Also, see the film's study guide (co-authored by Doug Wadley) by clicking here. |
Lost Souls of the Holocaust. 2006 Southwest Suburban Conference Visual Arts Festival -- 1st place 3-dimensional art Sculpture Copyright 2006 Lauren Eubanks/Photo image Copyright 2006 Chris Hosek
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CONGRATULATIONS: Courtney Sanor, 2006 Gershanov Family Memorial Holocaust Arts and Writing Contest Hon.Mention
We are all human beings.
-- David Faber, Holocaust survivor and author of Because of Romek
This website was created as an extension of a course entitled Social Injustices taught at Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School in Bradley, Illinois. Several years ago I felt the need to generate new curriculum in our social sciences department that would allow our students to get beyond the "sketch coverage" of major events in world history that are usually found in textbooks. After some deliberation as well as conversation with my colleagues and administration, it was determined that topics such as worldwide slavery (ancient to present), the removal of Native Americans, and the Holocaust would be the major topics. As the class has evolved through the years (beginning in the 2000-01 academic year) the Holocaust has taken on a greater focus.
In the spring of 2002 I was awarded a Mandel (now called Museum [04-05 school year]) Teacher Fellowship from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. As a Mandel Fellow I was required to create an outreach project that might benefit the teaching of the Holocaust and its themes and lessons. This website is the result, and I hope you'll find it useful.
In March 2007 I was selected to join the Regional Education Corps of the USHMM. My new responsibilities will include the creation and delivery of workshops/conferences for educators across the Midwest, as well as the training of docents for the Museum's traveling exhibitions and the possible creation of curricular materials related to the teaching of the Holocaust in secondary classrooms.
Special thanks go to Dr. Elliott Lefkovitz of Spertus College in Chicago, Illinois, who has served as an editor for the site's content, and to Dan Napolitano from the USHMM for his support, criticisms, and guidance through my Fellowship year and the completion of this project. Thanks also go to my family and colleagues for their encouragement and support.
Doug Wadley
Photo copyright 2005 Lauren Croix
Memory Void, Jewish Museum in Berlin
"The ground is covered with metallic "face" figures of all different sizes; walking on them creates a rather scary, eerie sound."
Thanks to Lawrence Swiader from the USHMM for assistance with some of the photo links found in Chapter 7. Thanks also to Lauren Croix, one of my former students, who so graciously contributed photographs of her tour of European Holocaust locations and points of interest for use on this site.
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