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Teaching the Holocaust to Middle School Students REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE The purpose

tem, our society is then better prepared to avoid a repetition of events.

Further, Freedman asserts that the focus of many media films on the holocaust tends to treat the dehumanization of victims in a way that makes them seem responsible for their own destruction. School curriculum on the holocaust can serve to counteract this impression by showing them the vast complex of circumstances such as individual abdication of personal responsibility in favor of mindless obedience to a tyrannical authority as well the ubiquitous aura of anti-Semitism prevailing in Germany actually produced the event.

A third reason for teaching the holocaust as a special course is that it is given far too little attention in regular history texts and as a result modern day students are left relatively unaware of the actual events. Freedman reports that very few secondary school history texts present a reasonably accurate picture of events. As for college texts, Freedman writes that they essentially dismiss the subject with a few words; indeed, he states that one analysis of college history texts showed an average of only 8 lines per text being devoted to a discussion of the persecution of Jews during the Second World War.

Zabienek (1983) has also addressed the subject of teaching the holocaust. He feels that the holocaust contains lessons that will contribute to the personal growth of students. As Zabienek puts it:

Teaching students the mistakes of history may help the students change from being "watchers" and become "doers," and also give the students the feeling that one person can make a difference. (Zabienek, 1983, p.32)

Zabienek also feels that holocaust curriculum can assist students in facing some catastrophe or high stress situation in their future because it gets them to thinking about how to cope with horrible events.

Zabienek further points out that in terms of horrible events, the era that students live in has its own problem...

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