Understanding and teaching the Holocaust / edited by Laura J. Hilton, Avinoam Patt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: teaching the Holocaust in the twenty-first century: challenges and necessity / Laura Hilton and Avinoam Patt -- Part One: Teaching Specific Content. Antisemitism: understanding its meaning, context, and history when teaching the Holocaust / Jonathan Elukin -- The rise of Nazism / Mark E. Spicka -- Legislation as a path to persecution / Russel Lemmons and Laura J. Hilton -- Jewish responses to Nazism in Vienna after the Anschluss / Ilana Offenberger -- Understanding the Holocaust in the context of the Second World War / Waitman Wade Beorn -- Tools of the state: the universe of Nazi camps / Geoffrey P. Megargee -- The decentralized system of Nazi ghettos in eastern Europe / Martin Dean -- Teaching about collaboration: a case study approach / Steven P. Remy -- Resistance and rescue / Laura J. Hilton -- Life in the aftermath: Jewish displaced persons / Avinoam Patt -- Postwar trails and justice / Gabriel N. Finder -- Part Two: Sources, Methods, and Media for Teaching the Holocaust. Teaching with Holocaust diaries: voices from the chasm / Amy Simon -- Strategies for teaching the Holocaust with memoirs / Jennifer Goss -- Teaching Holocaust literature in the twenty-first century / Victoria Aarons -- The grey zone of Holocaust education: teaching with film / Alan Marcus -- Survivor testimonies and interviews / Margarete Myers Feinstein -- Photographs / Valerie Hébert -- Teaching the Holocaust in museums / Daniel Greene -- Memorials, monuments, and the obligation of memory / Stuart Abrams -- Why should we teach the Holocaust today and tomorrow? / Robert Hadley.