Teaching with photographs
TitreTeaching with photographs
Auteur
Call number940.5318/0549
N° d'objet10651r
Lieu de publicationMadison, Wisconsin, United States
Année de publication
2020
Paginationpp275-293
MatérielArticle
SérieHarvey 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