Sarko and the holocaust
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7247637.stm
Président Sarkozy has suggested that 10 year olds should read the account of a Jewish child of their age deported by the Nazis. Some teachers and psychologists disagree.
France has a great awareness of the occupation and the slaughter of its Jewish citizens. Some months ago a church member sent me an article that was doing the rounds on the internet claiming that "England" was no longer going to teach the holocaust in its schools. I explained that I had never ever been "taught" the holocaust when I was in school - my GCE history course ended with Gladstone and Disraeli - and that the article was yet another example of the crazy stuff that goes round on the internet.
Meanwhile the presence of the Jean Moulin museum devoted to the resistance hero, of the wrecks of ships in the river, sunk by the retreating Nazis and still visible every low tide, the list of martyrs on the synagogue wall, so many things here testify every day of that nightmarish time.
Président Sarkozy has suggested that 10 year olds should read the account of a Jewish child of their age deported by the Nazis. Some teachers and psychologists disagree.
France has a great awareness of the occupation and the slaughter of its Jewish citizens. Some months ago a church member sent me an article that was doing the rounds on the internet claiming that "England" was no longer going to teach the holocaust in its schools. I explained that I had never ever been "taught" the holocaust when I was in school - my GCE history course ended with Gladstone and Disraeli - and that the article was yet another example of the crazy stuff that goes round on the internet.
Meanwhile the presence of the Jean Moulin museum devoted to the resistance hero, of the wrecks of ships in the river, sunk by the retreating Nazis and still visible every low tide, the list of martyrs on the synagogue wall, so many things here testify every day of that nightmarish time.
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