Students Visit the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
Seventh and eighth graders visited the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust on Wednesday, January 11 and Thursday, January 12 as part of the Facing History and Ourselves (FHAO) course. FHAO is a nonprofit international educational and professional development organization whose mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry.
During class, FHAO examines how groups have interacted with one another and allows students to understand the consequences of intolerance and to appreciate brave individuals or communities whose actions, however small, have averted or mitigated such tragedy. Students emerge from the program not only with a greater understanding of history, but also with an ability to face and evaluate their own relationships with individuals and communities. The seventh and eighth grade teachers have been trained by the FHAO organization and have built this course around these ideals.
Over the course of the year, students participate in various activities including field trips that enhance their learning. The museum visit provides an interactive space where students explore Holocaust history through artifacts and dialogue with a Holocaust survivor. The museum tour focuses on life before the war, the Nazi’s rise to power, life in the ghettos, and rescue and resistance. Students are introduced to concepts such as antisemitism, propaganda, and active and inactive resistance, and are given space to reflect on concepts of identity, responsibility, memory, and their own lives in the context of history.
The FHAO class uses inquiry, analysis and interpretation to aid students’ learning. They are given an opportunity to see from various perspectives, and thus synthesize their knowledge more effectively. In facing both history and ourselves, we are led to the connection between history and the moral choices we confront in our daily lives.
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