Teaching the Holocaust through Visual Culture

“Teaching the Holocaust through Visual Culture” interprets photomontage, sculpture, painting, book art, photographs, video testimonies, documentary, feature films, posters, flags, uniforms, and magazine illustrations. This summer seminar for K-12 educators investigates how history and visual culture inform each other when we seek to understand the Holocaust. Three primary goals inform the seminar: first, we learn how visual and written texts can be mutually reinforcing; second, we demonstrate how objects of visual culture can be studied as tools of ideology thinking, modes of political resistance, or tools of survival; and third, teachers will learn to add an art historical dimension to their curricula.