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New ICEAH folder
The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust has prepared a Polish-English folder covering its activities. The folder is available in printed and digital versions. Divided into thematic chapters, the guide recounts the founding of the Center, its educational work, and information on volunteer programs and educational publications.
There is also a detailed list of the Center's educational offerings for teachers, educators, and secondary-school and university-level students interested in enhancing their knowledge of the history of Auschwitz and the Holocaust.
Intended as one of many ways of focusing attention on the wide range of educational options at the ICEAH, the folder contains messages from such former Auschwitz prisoners as Kazimierz Piechowski, who writes that "the mass murder that took place there uncovers a new face of modern civilization. It brings to our attention that mass murder on such a scale can happen because it lies at the foundations of human consciousness. To build a new, better future, free of prejudice, the tragic and difficult past must be remembered. Having given accurate testimony in my recollections about that time, I desire that my generation’s experience will act as a warning and lesson for young people, who now have the fate of the world in their hands.”
The booklet also includes statements on the necessity for education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust by such authorities in the field as Elie Wiesel, Jonathan Webber, and Yehuda Bauer. "The Holocaust is seen today as the paradigmatic genocide, and education about it may hopefully lead to public awareness of the need to face other genocides in the real world of politics. Moral sermonizing will not help much, but a moral awareness might hopefully be a step towards the realization that if we want the human race to survive a bit longer we had better remind ourselves of what the Holocaust did, and what the consequences of other genocides might be,” Professor Yehuda Bauer of the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem writes in the new folder.
