Teaching the Holocaust without Survivors

The eventual absence of Holocaust survivors poses a number of challenges for Holocaust education. In addition to highlighting some of these issues, the means of addressing them are analysed, including video testimonies, making use of the second and third generation and integrating survivor accounts into Holocaust programmes of study. The dependence on survivor testimonies as a pedagogic tool is also called into question with a discussion of the educational opportunities which are opened up by the post-survivor era. This particularly includes a greater use of perpetrator testimonies.