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Six years ago, I went to Auschwitz. I remember being surprised at the number of Israeli school groups there, some literally wrapped in their national flag.
Israeli school kids, it turns out, often visit the death camp as a means of understanding the genocide that decimated their people. Learning this left me, not for the first time, impressed with the way Jews have institutionalized Holocaust education. A subject that was considered largely taboo into the 1970s has since become the object of manifold museums, memorials and oral histories.See the full content of this document
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We Must Tell Our Stories
As Maryla Korn, a survivor from Washington, once told the Washington Jewish Week newspaper, "Maybe by talking and telling our stories, we can restrain anothe...
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