November 24, 2000

Roman Catholic College Confronts Students With 'The Holocaust'

Courses about the extermination of 12 million people in Europe in World War II have cropped up on many a campus in recent years.

What distinguishes "The Holocaust" is that it directly confronts students who take the class at Saint Michael's College, a Roman Catholic college in Vermont, with the fact that the Catholic Church largely turned its back on the victims of the Final Solution, and contributed to the growth of anti-Semitism in Europe in the years