Remembering the Holocaust in Educational Settings

<p><em>Remembering the Holocaust in Educational Settings</em> 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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>An international and interdisciplinary exploration of how and why the Holocaust is remembered through educational activity <em>Remembering the Holocaust in Educational Settings</em> 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.</p>