Learning About the Holocaust: Opportunities and Challenges for the National Holocaust Museum in the Netherlands
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Amsterdam’s National Holocaust Museum is due to open in March 2024. It is the first and only museum to tell the story of the attempt by the Nazis to eradicate Jews from the Netherlands, a history of segregation, persecution, and murder. Yet the story is also one of rescue, survival, and solidarity. One of the museum’s main goals is to engage visitors by involving them in a learning experience, in particular, to encourage young people to study and to develop the skills they need to be able to understand the past, to see how this impacts the present, and to recognize and challenge discrimination and antisemitism today. This article begins by sketching the presentation in the new museum and examines how the museum’s educational facilities (presentation and programs) encourage audiences to think about what they can do to combat discrimination in general, and antisemitism in particular.
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Holocaust Education Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial Museums Teaching and Pedagogy Curriculum and Schoolbooks Antisemitism: Education against Holocaust Memorials
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49(1)
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26-36
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Link to article (paywalled), Learning About the Holocaust: Opportunities and Challenges for the National Holocaust Museum in the Netherlands
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Learning About the Holocaust: Opportunities and Challenges for the National Holocaust Museum in the Netherlands. 2024: 26-36. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1080/10598650.2023.2288978
