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Why study the Holocaust? ìThere is no more urgent task for educators in the field of history and social science than to teach about the importance of human rights and to analyze with them the actual instances in which genocide - the ultimate violation of human rights - has been committed. We study the atrocities of the past not only to preserve their signicance as historical events but also to help identify ways to prevent the atrocities from ever happening again.î1 We must also recognize that such a course of study requires the courage to honestly examine ourselves and our own history, and not just the histories of nations remote in time and place. It is only by creating a recognition that no nation, and no individual, is immune from the descent into injustice and barbarism, that we can hope to instill the counter-balamcing sense of ethical responsibility in ourselves and our students. [More about this] Written by S Berer. 1 From Human Rights and Genocide in the History-Social Science Framework: A Model Curriculum, by the California State Board of Education, 1988

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