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Holocaust history finds acceptance in college curricula
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By Marco Buscaglia
College Press Service
never happened, the importance of
genuine scholarship in the field of
Holocaust history has never been
more important.
Sadly, anti-Semitism is not dead
and neither are horrifying manifesta-
tions of prejudice and hatred. It's
been about 50 years—two-and-a-half
' To Ralph Rose, the endowment to
create the first-ever chair in Holo-
caust studies at Clark University is
. more than a memorial to the aunts,
uncles and grandparents he never had
the chance to meet.
It's also a thank you to his fa-
ther—the only member of his imme-
diate family to survive the Holo-
'caust—and a gift to future genera-
tions.
Rose and his brother Sidney were
taught by their father that if you save
one life, your life will be worth liv-
ing, The two men have given $1.3
million to Clark to create a chair in
Holocaust studies and modern Jew-
ish history and culture.
A half century after Soviet sol-
diers liberated Auschwitz, the study
of the Holooaust is becoming more
popular at colleges nationwide as a
way to help future generations under-
stand the horrors of genocide and
dangers of bigotry and racism.
While many colleges now offer
courses dealing specifically with the
Holocaust, some institutions, such as
Clark University in Worcester, Mass.,
Emory University in Atlanta and
Florida Atlantic University in Boca
Raton, have created specific depart-
ments for Holocaust studies.
Interest in the Holocaust has never
been greater than it is now, according
to David Strassler, chairman of
Clark's Board of Trustees and na-
tional chairman of the Anti-Defama-
tion League ofB'NaiB'Rith. Given ;
the reemergence of so-called histori
•SSfcj
ans who argue that the Holocaust
Butts are gross
anti-smoking campaign
targets Beavis crowd
When the Texas Department of Health's Office of Smoking and Health
decided to sponsor a statewide advertising campaign to combat smoking
among young people, officials obviously played to their audience.
Meant to counteract tobacco industry advertising which presents tobacco
use as glamourous, the campaign's billboards and posters picture the back-
sides of animals and a snuffed-out cigarette. All appear above the caption
"Butts are Gross."
Although it is illegal in Texas to sell tobacco products to minors, research
has shown that children have easy access to cigarettes. Clearly, the |egal
deterrent against smoking and chewing tobacco among kids isn't enough.
The imagery in this campaign is blunt enough to make a point to the most
elementary reader that smoking is far from glamorous.
Dallas-based publicists are offering the Texas campaign to a variety of
media. Statewide, the campaign includes more than 90 billboards, announce-
ments en 86 radio and 53 television stations, plus newspaper features. Posters
have been distributed to 45,000 worksites, schools, health care providers and
community organizations.
The imagery is creative and innovative and will appeal to children. But,
will it make them think twice about using tobacco.
Florida State University held a Holo-
caust Summer Study Institute, a
seven-day seminar focusing on how
the Holocaust should be taught in
world history, world literature and
American history courses.
The civic education of children
and youth in our democratic society
more than 5,000 Jewish students, is
planning the construction of New
Jersey's first comprehensive center
for the study of Jewish life, thanks to
a $2 million grant from Joan and
Allen Bildner.
The Bildner Center for the Study
of JewishLife will house classes about
soever of homicidal gassing cham-
bers, and no proof that even one
individual was gassed in a Nazi pro-
gram of genocide."
Ziff says that he still thinks it was
irresponsible for the newspaper to
run the ad last April, but was im-
pressed enough by the introduction
A haCf century after Soviet soCdiers [iBeratedAusckuritz, tfe study of
the ttoCocaust is Becoming more popular at coCCeges nationziri.de as a way
to he(p future generations understand the horrors of genocide and dan-
gers of Bigotry and racism.
generations—since the Holocaust.
Many people now have only a vague
awareness of what happened. Be-
cause of this, many educators think it
is important to teach the lessons of
the Holocaust, what gives rise to
such acts of genocide and how and
why people respond or fail to re-
spond.
Clark administrators are looking
for a professor to teach courses spe-
cifically on the Holocaust, which will
cover the origins and history of the
event, as well as the far-reaching
consequences.
Last year, Florida's legislature
passed a bill mandating that the Ho-
locaust be taught in Floridasssjatq |
schools. To help give; teachers the'
necessary academic background,
is woefully incomplete without a sys-
tematic and accurate study of the
Holocaust experience says FSU his-
tory professor Neil Betten, who
helped teach classes at the Institute.
The facts of history must speak for
themselves.
The University of Arizona in Tuc-
son is offering a new course on the
Holocaust that will incorporate lec-
tures and question-and-answer ses-
sions with survivors along with his-
torical readings.
Officials there believe nothing
can replace the vivid testimony of a
person who has been there. It makes
the Holocaust real for students. It
becomes more than just words on a
page>' 11 — •
Rutgers University, which has
Jewish life and will ultimately be part
of new bachelor's and graduate pro-
grams in Jewish studies. Class topics
will range from Holocaust studies to
Jews in the American cinema.
The University of Miami recently
introduced six new courses in the
social studies, history and English
departments that focus on the Holo-
caust.
The classes were created after
Florida businessman Sanford L. Ziff,
a 1948 UM graduate, withdrew a $2
million gift to the university last April
after school administrators refused to
make the editors of the Miami Hurri-
cane pull a controversial advertise-
ment that argued the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum-in- Washington
"displays no convincing proof what-
of the new classes to restore his do-
nation.
Jack Fischel, professor of history
at Millersville University in Penn-
sylvania, says the study of Holocaust
is important because of the unfortu-
nate possibility that the unprec-
edented historical event could be re-
peated, albeit in another form.
The Holocaust was the intention
on the part of the Nazis to eliminate
every Jewish man, woman and child
from the face of the planet. People
need to realize that as crazy as the
ideology sounds, it almost worked.
We need to study the Holocaust be-
cause with the skinheads and neo-
Nazis, this type of thinking is still
around.
Dartmouth College professors
Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer
developed a course devoted solely to
the study of the Holocaust. The hus-
band—wife team, both children of
Jewish survivors of Nazi-occupied
Europe, now teach "Representing the
Holocaust History: History, Memory
and Survival."
Educators believe that the Holo-
caust is a subject that needs to be
talked about and understood by a
generation too young to remember it.
And so does Ralph Rose.
"We're concerned about the fu-
ture. There are a lot of people who
know nothing about the Holocaust,"
says Rose. "We have to make sure
that this is something that will never
be forgotten or denied."
When Rose was very young, he
says he knew that his father lost his
family in the Holocaust. It just didn't
come up very much during family
conversation.
But as Rose and his brother Sidniey
grew older, their father began to tell
them stories about the grandparents,
aunts and uncles they never met.
His father, who came tq the
United States from Poland when he
was 16, went back a few years later to
see his mother, who was very sick. It
was the last time he ever saw anyone
from his family.
Shortly after Phillip Rose returned
to the United States from his visit, the
Nazis invaded his family's town. The
German soldiers marched the Jewish
villagers to the edge of town, forced
them to dig their own graves and shot
them. This I should never be forgot-
ten. It's our responsibility to apply
what we've iearned fo our acceptance
and understanding of all people.
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As a student here at Tarleton I
have studied about many problems in
our society. I was not ready to be-
come involved in such problems so
soon though. It seems that the same
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to be successful are also teaching us
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You would think that after losing
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