The Holocaust is one of the most horrific episodes in the entirety of human history. Sure, there have been countless massacres and mass murders throughout history, but nothing approaches the cold, mechanical, organized precision of what the Nazis did to Jews and countless other minorities.
Understanding the evil that men and women are capable of should be an important part of any child’s education – how else to stop history from repeating itself? But, at least according to author and former Barack Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz, Holocaust education has ‘unfortunately’ been a little too successful.
