Tag: The Holocaust

Facing History is Not a Walk in the Park

I recently returned from a two week mini “Grand Tour” of Europe. The last stop on our itinerary was the Bavarian capital, Munich. As a World History teacher,…

Night

I came across Night by Elie Wiesel while in middle school. I found it at my school library and the barbed wire and shadow of a boy on…

Visiting the Anne Frank House

At the age of 16, I had the opportunity to travel to Amsterdam with my family. Even at an early age, I had a genuine interest in history…

Turning Historical Events into Modern Reflective Inquiries

For years, every time we covered World War II and the Holocaust in school it was just a fact memorization activity. “Hitler was bad and did bad things.”…