"Through a child's eyes": teaching the Holocaust through children's Holocaust experiences

Considering children's accounts of the Holocaust period as an important tool in teaching the history of the Holocaust to children and teenagers, summarizes the literature now available to the educator. There were three waves of publications on children's experiences during the Nazi period: the first - immediately after the war, the second in the decade from the mid-1950s, and the third began during the mid-1970s and continues to this day. The last wave has been supplemented by academic, analytical publications, attempting to research the fate of Jewish children during the Holocaust. In the 1960s an interest in Jewish children's art of the Holocaust period also emerged.