welcome back. across the world, it is holocaust rememberance day. which always spurs the question how should we remember, and how should we teach the important lessons of the holocaust to a younger generation? well, right on cue, a school board in tennessee has banned from the classrooms the pulitzer prize winning novel maus. it s a children book that casts the nazis as a cat, and thejews as mice, other nations as different animals, and it depicts how the author s father, a polishjew survived auschwitz. art speigelman said he was baffled by the decision to ban it. one member of the school board in tennassee said, i am not denying the holocaust was horrible, brutal, and cruel, but this book, it shows people hanging, it shows them killing kids, why does the educational system promote this kind of stuff? it is not wise or healthy. joining us now is professor gregory spinner. he teaches jewish studies