Vol. 1 No. 29 (2020): Holocaust Memory as an education strategy for education professionals

Guest Editor:

Dr. Manuel Reyes Mate Rupérez. Center for Human and Social Sciences. Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Madrid, Spain.

In the year that the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Death Camp is commemorated -paradigm of what Nazi barbarism meant in the history of mankind- and after 20 years from the Declaration of Stockholm -a document in which European countries accept the inclussion of contents about the Holocaust in the different education curricula as a precept- in this number, the use of Holocaust teaching is proposed beyond the historical fact. This is as a convenient resource for teaching values, tolerance and respect, that contribute to the development of a democratic society. Holocaust education is an European policy to which Spain is linked since 2007 and it depends on the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport within the publication of the Ley Orgánica de Mejora Educativa (LOMCE) 8/2013, de 9 de diciembre, which includes the jewish holocaust as a subject. This circumstance forces teachers to have some knowledge about the topic.