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Holocaust Education Programs
Taking Shape at Yad Vashem
JERUSALEM — At Yad
Vashem — the Holocaust
memorial institute located
on Mount Herzl in
Jerusalem — officials of the
Israeli education depart-
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ment have been participat-
ing for almost 20 years in
shoring up and, where
necessary, creating
Holocaust curricula for
schools, both Jewish and
non-Jewish, throughout the
world, according to Israel
Scene magazine.
If vou ask Samuel Spec-
tor. head of the education
department, how he feels
about the teaching of the
Holocaust, he will tell you
that he is never really satis-
fied.
In fact, though. Spector is
very proud of the progress
that bas been made in
Holocaust studies, a field
that Yad Vashem has been
part of since the late Profes-
sor Alexander Dushkin,
then a member of the direc-
torate of Yad Vashem,
suggested sending inquiries
to schools around Israel to
discover how much was
being taught about the
,Holocaust.
The results of the in-
quiry were says Spector,
not encouraging."
The truly depressing
news was that most Israeli
children knew little more
than the bare facts of the
Holocaust, a discovery that
provided the incentive for
Dushkin, Spector and
others to inject a new facet
into their activities.
Although later findings
would show that much the
same ignorance prevailed
outside Israel, Yad Vashem
first directed its energies at
the Israeli school system.
The major initial problem
was how the subject should
be classified in the schools.
The most logical classifica-
tion might have been "his-
tory" but, according to Spec-
tor, that would have meant
students would not learn
about the Holocaust until
they reached high school.
However, as he points out, it
was agreed that "you can't
expect kids to wait without
asking," particularly in Is-
rael where there are daily
reminders of the Holocaust.
At the same time, litera-
ture teachers were press-
ing to teach some aspects
of the period through
poems written by chil-
dren of the concentration
camps and ghettos.
Among those who agree
with Spector is Yitzhak
Mais, also of Yad Vashem's
education department.
Mais, an academic coor-
dinator of the institute's
annual Teaching-the-
Holocaust Seminar, points
out that the subject of the
Holocaust is immense and
that the education
minefields are numerous.
Moreover, he says,
The Hebrew Immigrant
Aid Society sent represen-
tatives to Ellis Island in
1904 to help in the defense
of new arrivals scheduled
for deportation hearings.
The agency also investi-
gated immigrants' com-
plaints about shipboard
conditions in steerage, and
arranged to have conditions
improved.
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teachers don't know how to
deal with it.
Nevertheless, officials at
Yad Vashem, including
Spector and Mais, are
pleased with the progress
which has been made in
teaching the Holocaust and,
through the scheduling of
teaching seminars, they are
hopeful that the teachers
will become better equipped
for the task.
By
SAM FIELD
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