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Holocaust Curriculum
Called 'Unfair' To Nazis
New York (JTA) — A cur-
riculum used by some 30,000
teachers nationwide to teach
Holocaust studies to 450,000
American high school stu-
dents has been denounced by
members of a U.S. Depart-
ment of Education review
panel for unfairness to the
Nazi and Ku Klux Klan
points of view, the New York
Daily News reported last
Sunday.
The News said . the com-
ments of the panelists were
contained in Education
Department documents ob-
tained by the newspaper. The
authors were not identified
but "the documents indicate
that the panels (were) com-
posed (of) Southern educa-
tors," the newspaper said.
The curriculum was de-
veloped by a Massachusetts
educational foundation called
"Facing History and Our-
selves" which applied for a
three-year $150,000 federal
grant to expand the program.
It was reviewed by panels in
1986 and 1987 for evaluation
under the Education Depart-
ment's National Diffusion
network established in the
Nixon Administration to alert
educators about worthwhile
programs created in local
schools.
In 1986, three members of
the review panel submitted
negative evaluations of the
Holocaust curriculum. One
panelist complained that it
"gives no evidence of balance
or objectivity. The Nazi point
of view, however unpopular, is
still a point of view, and is not
presented; nor is that of the
Ku Klux Klan."
The same panelist main-
tained that the curriculum is
based on the resource book
"The Holocaust and Human
Behavior" which "may be ap-
propriate for a limited reli-
gious audience but not for
widespread distribution to
the schools of the nation."
A separate evaluation panel
in 1987 charged that "Facing
History" has a "profoundly
anti-Christian bias," uses
material that could be "pro-
foundly offensive to fun-
damentalists and evangeli-
cals', relies too much on "left-
ist authorities" such as
author Kurt Vonnegut, New
York Times columnist Flora
Lewis and British historian
A. J. P. Taylor, and overall was
too emotional for junior high
school students:
The panelists claimed the
study program induced "guilt
trips" among students and
one said "schools cannot af-
ford to squander" time by
"making teenagers face
themselves in the context of
death camps."
Ronald Preston, an assist-
pit deputy secretary of educa-
tion, told the News, "We were
embarrassed" by the 1986
evaluation which found the
curriculum unfair to the Nazi
point of view and disagreed
with including The Dairy of
Anne Frank on the reading
list. However, Preston said
the department will continue
to use content review panels,
"Facing History" was created
in 1975 by Margot Strom and
William Parsons, then high
schools teachers in Brookline,
Mass. Strom told the News in
an interview that the
Holocaust curriculum uses
both the Holocaust and the
Armenian genocide to
stimulate students to think
about how they would have
responded to forces that
resulted in mass killings.
As far as the Nazi point of
view is concerned, Strom said
the program includes films
made by Hitler and others
that were used by the KKK to
recruit young people. She said
she expects the foundation's
1987 application for funding
would be denied.
U.S. Orthodox
Decry Violence
New York (JTA) — Five ma-
jor Orthodox organizations in
the U.S. issued a joint state-
ment last week protesting
what they called the "radical
desecration" of the unique
religious status of Jerusalem
by the screening of films
there on the Sabbath. Their
statement also condemned
"the action of the minuscule
group of irresponsible hot-
heads who stoop to stone-
throwing in violation of
Jewish law." The latter refer-
ence apparently was to ultra-
Orthodox residents of
Jerusalem who have resorted
to violence to force the closure
of cinemas.
The statement was issued
by the Agudath Israel of
America, National Council of
Young Israel, Rabbinical
Council of America, Religious
Zionists of America, and the
Union of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations of America.
It stressed that "Respect
for the Sabbath was em-
bodied even in the non-Jewish
by-laws of Jerusalem under
the British mandate which
forbade Sabbath desecration
in public facilities of the kind
now being perpetrated."
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