Inadequate Lessons on Holocaust Deplored
TORONTO (JTA)—An agency mentioned in many text and that
of the Province of Ontario, in a in others purporting to deal with with similarly positive attributes
three-year survey of textbooks in modern history it was treated cas- are Christians and "immigrants"
use in public high schools in that ually." In most cases, the issue was (in general) whereas Moslems,
Negroes and Indians are described
Canadian province, has discovered disposed
of in a few sentences.
by such words as fanatical, super-
that in none of the textbooks stud-
The writers added: "On the stitious, savage. In 1966, the Cana-
ied was there "adequate" presen-
tation of "what must be consid- whole, the texts mention only dian Jewish Congress, in a brief
ered one of the most atrocious Jews among the persecuted groups to the Hall Committee on Aims
chapters in the whole history of and are vague about the total and Objectives of Education, de-
ankind"—the Nazi treatment of number killed. Most of the dis- plored the treatment (or non-
cussions neglect to mention the treatment) of the Nazi period in
and other minorities.
philosophical or social roots of schoolbooks.
information was compiled anti-Semitism, the Allied failure
Referring to a book entitled
130-page volume entitled to assist the Jews, or the Nazis'
ling Prejudice," prepared treatment of political opponents, "The Modern Era" it pointed out
met McDiarmid and David gypsies, Slays and Poles. Above that in three chapters on World
of the Ontario Institute for all, there is little or no attempt War II exactly one short sentence
referred to the Hitlerite racial
lies in Education for report
indicate to students that the gas persecutions. The book is still
the Ontario Human Rights Com- to
chambers and ovens of such con- in use in Toronto high schools.
mission.
cenration camps as Dachau, Ausch-
Nineteen textbooks in courses of witz and Treblinka are the out-
history and world politics from come of discrimination against mi-
Daily — Hospital — Sympathy
grade 10 to grade 12 constituted norities taken to its extreme.
the sample for judging the ade-
On the question of stereotyping
quacy of treatment of Nazi perse- in textbooks, Jews fare much bet-
cution of minorities, of these, eight ter than most other minority
textbooks did not mention the groups. The positive and "flavor-
topic at all, nine were adjudged able" adjectives or expressions
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The writers stated "it is aston- applied to Jews. The other group
ishing that this issue was not even •
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