January 29, 1999
Learning to Teach the Holocaust for the First Time
Above the main gate of Auschwitz, metal letters still spell out the German words that mocked those who entered and never left: Arbeit Macht Frei. Work shall set you free.
A group of Polish schoolteachers files through the former concentration camp, which lies an hour from here. They visit the brick barracks, observe the mounds of shoes and eyeglasses and suitcases, then take a short bus ride to the Birkenau subcamp. The remains of one
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