If you’re a teacher, parent, or just an adult who is around children, it is vitally important that you educate the young people around you about the Holocaust. There are many reasons this is true.
The Importance of Holocaust Education
To start with, when young people understand what happened in the Holocaust, then it is easier to convince them that it is important to be tolerant towards people of other faiths. Once children understand the history of what happened in Nazi Europe, they will be better able to grasp the ultimate consequences of demonizing others based on religion and ethnicity.
Furthermore, when you use a program created by an actual Holocaust survivor, the material becomes very engaging. It’s not the same as reading dry passages written in a history book by people who weren’t there. The lessons get across more effectively.
Telling the stories of Holocaust survivors to children helps preserve them. When the camps were liberated at the end of World War Two, people vowed that no one ever forgets this chapter of history, but, because of the passage of time, there is a danger of this happening.
Finally, education about a past Holocaust could help prevent the next one. Education is the best way to stop history from repeating itself.
Now, more than ever, our children need to learn about what it means to be a Dachau survivor. To learn more about an educational program created by a Dachau survivor, visit the website of Zachor Holocaust Remembrance Foundation at www.zachorfoundation.org.
