Teaching with photographs
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Teaching with photographs
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number940.5318/0549
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]10651r
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Madison, Wisconsin, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]The University of Wisconsin Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2020
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp275-293
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]Series title[nb-NO]Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history.
NotesArticle from the book 'Understanding and teaching the Holocaust' pp275-293
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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