Teaching with photographs
TitleTeaching with photographs
Author
Call number940.5318/0549
Object number10651r
Place of publicationMadison, Wisconsin, United States
PublisherThe University of Wisconsin Press
Year of publication
2020
Physical descriptionpp275-293
MaterialArticle
Series titleHarvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history.
NotesArticle from the book 'Understanding and teaching the Holocaust' pp275-293
Description
Teaching the Holocaust with photographs requires tolerance. Some of the photographs discussed in this chapter are horrifying to behold: violence, vulnerability, and terror. Their sensitive content demands contemplation of the ethical implications of projecting them in our classrooms. It was the Nazis' intention to destroy not only the Jews but also their memory and the evidence of their destruction. The existence of photographs undermines that goal