Rethinking School Trips to Auschwitz
A Case Study of Italian Memorial Trains: Deterioration of Holocaust Pedagogy? Laura Fontana *CEO of the Education and Memory Project, Rimini, Italy (in “The Holocaust Ethos in the 21st Century: Dilemmas and Challenges”, Ariel University of Samaria, 2011) Unlike France, Germany and many other European countries, in Italy the Holocaust is not a compulsory component of the school curriculum. However,...
