From: Mary Ann Gilpatrick <MGilpatrick>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:07:13 -0700

I first learned about the Holocaust against the Jews and others at about age 12: in that year I read the Diary of Anne Frank, and saw the movie
*Exodus.* They both led me to sources where I could ask a lot of questions. Neither eye-opening experience was from school.

Today's students might have a lot of questions after watching *Hotel Rwanda.* The documentary *Year Zero* about Cambodia under Pol Pot is hopefully still around. I don't think anything takes the place of watching interviews with someone standing by a small mountain of human skulls.

*Exodus* could be (and was) dismissed as "Zionist propaganda." Documentaries are harder to dismiss.

This if real food for thought for those of us involved in collection development.

Mary Ann Gilpatrick Walla Walla Public Library 238 E. Alder Walla Walla WA 99362 509-527-4550 x510 FAX: 509-527-3748 mgilpatrick at ci.walla-walla.wa.us


Another tangential question about teaching the Holocaust that I have is it possible to teach the Holocaust or any other historical subject using

movies?
Received on Thu 20 Apr 2006 02:07:13 PM CDT