Alex O’Byrne-Lynch: Teaching the Holocaust to Students with EAL (English as an Additional Language): Challenges versus Opportunity https://cultureastestimony.wordpress.com/2018/07/25/alex-obyrne-lynch-teaching-the-holocaust-to-students-with-eal-english-as-an-additional-language-challenges-versus-opportunity/ — Read on cultureastestimony.wordpress.com/2018/07/25/alex-obyrne-lynch-teaching-the-holocaust-to-students-with-eal-english-as-an-additional-language-challenges-versus-opportunity/ I’m helping out on a project called Culture As Testimony with some history teachers and academics. I published an article on their blog about some of the challenges of teaching the Holocaust to … More Alex O’Byrne-Lynch: Teaching the Holocaust to Students with EAL (English as an Additional Language): Challenges versus Opportunity

Saturday Reader: The Holocaust at 70 – A Retrospective Essay. Extremely powerful photos. I urge anyone with an interest in the social impact of Nazis anti-Semitism on the occupied territories should take a look. It’s amazing see the same building occupied by the Nazis, with Swastikas draping from the windows to now see it in the 21st … More Saturday Reader: The Holocaust at 70 – A Retrospective Essay

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-day-that-deutschland-died-retracing-the-fate-of-captured-axis-soldiers-at-the-end-of-ww2-10216869.html This is well worth a read for anyone interested in World War Two. I had previoisly assumed German POWs were immediately returned home after the war, as opposed to providing a source of labor for post-war Britain. I found it particularly interesting when it discussed the agricultural work the soldiers did and the social … More The day that Deutschland died: Retracing the fate of captured Axis soldiers at the end of WW2

Historical Quotes. – Quotes from George Santayana and Aristotle are admirable, and scarily accurate. Enjoy x