Arizona House GQP Wants Curriculum About Communism, But Not Fascism. Go Figure. [View all]

The Sedition Caucus in the Arizona House voted Friday to require that students be exposed to stories of people who fled communism, as part of a curriculum to prepare them to be “civically responsible and knowledgeable adults.’’

Just curious, why not expose students to stories of people who fled European fascism? When I was a kid I grew up among World War II veterans who had fought in the battles that are now only in history books, and I knew Jews who had fled Europe both before the war and others who fled after surviving the Holocaust. These first-person oral accounts created a bond of shared history and memories between generations.

The Library of Congress has an entire digital collection of oral histories, many collected since the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

USC’s Shoah Foundation also has Dimensions in Testimony which features live as well as virtual interviews with Holocaust survivors.

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