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On-site: “It Starts with Words: Teaching the Escalation of Hate”

March 10, 2025 | 9:30am CST

Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center

For Educators in Grades 7-12

The Holocaust arose out of antisemitic hatred fueled in part by the power of words. Participants examine the escalation of words to violence, which in turn, became genocide in order to consider where such a progression might have been interrupted. Educators also gain tools to apply these lessons to modern day issues faced by students. 

Presented in Partnership with Echoes and Reflections

Workshop Includes:

  • Classroom Resources
  • Tour of exhibition
  • 4 Clock Hours/CPDUs

Photo credits: German children reading the antisemitic schoolbook Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom, published in 1938), warning children about the supposed dangers posed by Jews. Nuremberg City Archives E 39/I No. 2381/5.

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