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When Teaching About The Holocaust Isn t Enough
Brittany Burns teaching her Fragility of Democracy course at Algonquin Regional High School in Northborough.
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When Teaching About The Holocaust Isn t Enough | May 5, 2021
Just months after former President Donald Trump took office in 2017, militant neo-Nazi groups rioted in the streets of Charlottesville, Va., carrying torches and chanting Jews will not replace us!
Three days later, someone threw a rock at the Holocaust Memorial in downtown Boston. Bystanders chased and tackled the perpetrator, a 17-year-old from Malden.
Greg Hurley heard the news with horror. At the time, he was a social studies teacher in charge of the history curriculum at Malden High School, where the suspect was enrolled. Because the coursework included lessons about Nazi Germany s mass slaughter of 6 million Jews during World War II, the father of one- and four-year-olds started to reckon with why his efforts hadn t succeeded.