From: Edward T. Sullivan <sully>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:31:03 -0400 (EDT)

The importance of connecting the Holocaust to other acts of genocide was raised. As far as I'm concerned, it is valueless to teach the Holocaust without making other historical connections to it. Young people have to be made aware that the European Holocaust was NOT an isolated event, that it is one of many examples throughout history of how genocide has been, is, and will continue to be waged in the world. The contemporary example now is, of course, the Darfur region in Sudan. Other recent examples are Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. Before the Nazis, there was the Armenian genocide during World War I and the policy of the U.S. Government toward idigenous peoples. The treatment of Japanese occupiers against the Chinese in the 1930s and 40s is another example.

In addition to genocides, there are other subjects tie well into Holocaust studies, including:

Slavery Apartheid in South Africa Jim Crow Laws in the United States Japanese-American Internment


Ed Sullivan, M.S.L.S. 103 Oneida Lane Oak Ridge, TN, 37830

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"
                  -John Lennon-
Received on Thu 27 Apr 2006 03:31:03 PM CDT