NEVER AGAIN UNTIL THE NEXT TIME In his

NEVER AGAIN? UNTIL THE NEXT TIME…

In his book ‘Teacher and Child’, educator and psychologist Haim Ginott includes a copy of a letter that a principal sent to his teachers at the beginning of each new school year Dear Teacher, I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no man should witness: Gas chambers built by learned engineers. Children poisoned by educated physicians. Infants killed by trained nurses. Women and babies shot and burned by high school and college graduates. So I am suspicious of education. My request is: Help your students become human. Your efforts must never produce learned monsters, skilled psychopaths, educated Eichmanns. Reading, writing, arithmetic are important only if they serve to make our children more human.

CHOICES PERPETRATORS BYSTANDERS UPSTANDERS Rescue and Resistance VICTIMS Choiceless Choices

AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU

RESCUERS

Abba Kovner

Hungarian Jewish men, women and children on arrival at Auschwitz. Birkenau awaiting selection, May 1944 The Auschwitz Album

XENOPHOBIA, MAY 2008 ZAPIRO

CARTOON ANALYSIS • I: identify: any symbols, characters, places, anything important or that stands out. • S: situation: where is it happening? How are the characters positioned? What is happening? • M: Meaning: what does the cartoon mean? • A: Attitude of the cartoonist? Positive or negative?

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MUSEUM ON THE SEEM, JERUSALEM