The Ethics of Teaching at Sites of Violence and Trauma: Student Encounters with the Holocaust

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This book chronicles a professor’s experience with a group of US undergraduate students at Holocaust memorials, museums, and sites of remembrance as part of a yearly Holocaust study abroad program to Germany and Poland. Narrated through a series of personal encounters, The Ethics of Teaching at Sites of Violence and Trauma synthesizes a concrete experiential teaching account - on issues ranging from trauma tourism to the ethics of spectatorship - with contemporary debates on Holocaust education. In doing so, this book seeks to offer a critical assessment on the possibilities and limitations of teaching at sites that were central to the planning and execution of the Holocaust. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi The Problem with “Being There” (Natalie Bormann)....Pages 1-15 “I Was There!”: The Conjunction of Study Abroad and Dark Tourism (Natalie Bormann)....Pages 17-31 “And Now You Are Going to See Something Shocking”: Atrocity Images in Holocaust Education (Natalie Bormann)....Pages 33-47 “We Didn’t Know There Was a Women’s Camp”: The Haunting Qualities of Ravensbrück (Natalie Bormann)....Pages 49-62 “My Therapist Told Me not to Visit Auschwitz”: The Problem with crisis pedagogy (Natalie Bormann)....Pages 63-74 Conclusions: Looking Back at a Holocaust study abroad program (Natalie Bormann)....Pages 75-81 Back Matter ....Pages 83-93