Department of Education's Refusal to Fund Holocaust Curriculum: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, October 19, 1988, Volume 4 |
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Page 92 - I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no man should witness: Gas chambers built by learned engineers; Children poisoned by educated physicians; Infants killed by trained nurses; Women and babies shot and burned by high school and college graduates.
Page 124 - Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, I am grateful for the opportunity to testify...
Page 17 - the program gives no evidence of balance or objectivity. The Nazi point of view, however unpopular, is still a point of view and is not presented, nor is that of the Ku Klux Klan.
Page 92 - ... infants killed by trained nurses women and babies shot and burned by high school and college graduates so, I am suspicious of education. My request is: help your students become human. Your efforts must never produce learned monsters, skilled psychopaths, educated Eichmanns. Reading, writing, arithmetic are important only if they serve to make our children more human.
Page 122 - Before the HUMAN RESOURCES AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE of the HOUSE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS...
Page 3 - He has, however, prepared a short written statement which he would like to have included in the record, and further he has asked that I be allowed to testify in his place.
Page 85 - In no other course was [my daughter] exposed to real dilemmas as complex and challenging. In no other course has she been inspired to use the whole of her spiritual, moral and intellectual resources to solve a problem. In no other course has she been so sure that the task mattered seriously for her development as a responsible person.
Page 118 - This curriculum is about more than the Holocaust. It's about the reading and the writing and the arithmetic of genocide, but it's also about such R's as rethinking, reflecting, and reasoning. It's about prejudice, discrimination and scapegoating; but it's also about human dignity, morality, law, and citizenship. It's about avoiding and forgetting, but it's also about civic courage and justice. In an age of 'back to basics1 this curriculum declares that there is one thing more basic, more sacred,...
Page 125 - I think all of us here are aware of those, even among our own countrymen, who have dedicated themselves to the disgusting task of minimizing or even denying the truth of the Holocaust. This act of intellectual genocide must not go unchallenged.
Page 4 - I understand you do not have a prepared statement, but that you were prepared, if there were any questions in your area, to respond to them.