Attitudes to Death during the Holocaust: writings from the ghettos

Burke, Deirdre

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“…Theology does not happen in a vacuum, it responds to events in the world, and theological writings from the Holocaust show the ways that religious communities responded to suffering and likely death. In an earlier article in this journal, 'Attitudes to death during the Holocaust' (Burke, 1999), I explored some of the ways that death and suffering had been presented in accounts from the Warsaw and Lodz ghettos. From the Jewish side the writings of Rabbi Shapiro, leader of an Hasidic community in the Warsaw Ghetto, reveal the struggle that many Jews went through to retain beliefs about a God involved in human life when such suffering and death occurred.…”

Section: Religious Education and Holocaust Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

Death and the Holocaust: The challenge to learners and the need for support

Burke

2003

Journal of Beliefs & Values

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The aim is to explore impact that learning about the Holocaust has on pupils and to consider how religious education can help to support pupils. The focus on the pupil encounter with suffering and death within the Holocaust explores the impact of this learning on pupils. Data drawn from my PhD research study, involving over 100 pupils in the United Kingdom, is used to explore the impact that the study of the Holocaust had on pupils. This covered images that pupils retained from study, aspects which they found threatening, and finally what they found difficult to understand. This encounter will be set within the context of research on children and death. The final section argues that the method and content of religious education could provide invaluable support for pupils in this encounter, and illustrates this argument with suggestions of materials that teachers could use in the classroom.

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Section: Religious Education and Holocaust Studymentioning

confidence: 99%