Where do you even start with regard to teaching the Holocaust in schools?
This question was recently posed to me and 24 other teachers from various subject backgrounds on a Holocaust Educational Trust teacher study visit as we stood, heavily wrapped up against the cold, at the top of the “Hill of the Three Crosses” overlooking the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius.
It was certainly a good enough question to achieve the impossible – silencing a group of teachers. No-one said anything and all you could hear was the wind whistling through the railings. Where do you start with a subject that is so serious, so large, so alien to what we imagine humanity to be capable of?
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