Tell Ye Your Children Explained
| Author: | Stéphane Bruchfeld and Paul A. Levine |
| Isbn: | 9789163063855 |
| Pub Date: | 1998 |
| Publisher: | Living History Project, The Swedish Government Offices |
| Title Orig: | Om detta må ni berätta |
| Language: | Swedish |
Tell Ye Your Children: A Book about the Holocaust in Europe, 1933–1945 is a 1998 history textbook about The Holocaust written by Stéphane Bruchfeld and Paul A. Levine.[1] The textbook is used in more than twenty countries as part of their effort to educate about The Holocaust. It is most often used by teachers and students from middle school through graduate Holocaust history and Genocide Studies seminars.[2] Originally published in Swedish, it has been translated into English, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, French, German, Ukrainian, Croatian, Estonian, Latvian, Japanese, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish, Persian, Kurdish, Arabic, and Russian.[3]
Background
Tell Ye Your Children was commissioned by the Swedish government as part of a national educational campaign to teach Swedish citizens about the Holocaust. It was the first major project initiated by former Prime Minister of Sweden Göran Persson in 1997. During a parliamentary debate in June 1997,[4] Persson initiated an information campaign about the Holocaust, including what really happened and what values and attitudes led to it. The project was named “Living History”.[5]
Content
Tell Ye Your Children's title is based on a quotation from the Bible, Book of Joel 1:2–3, which, in the New International Version reads, "Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors? Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation." The title tells the purpose, which is to help parents discuss the Holocaust with their children.
Tell Ye Your Children presents facts about the Holocaust and attempts to explain how it came to be. It is not strictly chronological: it is both chronological and thematic.
Further reading
- Book on the Forum for Living History website
- Final report 31 January 2001 from the Committee tasked with investigating the establishment of a Forum for Living History, SOU 2001:05, Government Office 2001
- The Stockholm International Forum – a series of four conferences, Statsrådsberedningen SE-103 33 Stockholm, Sweden
- IHRA (The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance), News, 4.11.2019, In Memory of Holocaust Scholar Paul Levine
- The Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Uppsala University, 1998-2007, Accomplishments and Goals, Newsletter, Spring 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070610014951/http://www.multietn.uu.se/hgs/information_hgs/Newsletter/HGSNews1spr2007b2.pdf
- Kvist Geverts, Karin, ed., Holocaust Remembrance and Representation. Documentation from a Research Conference, 2020.
- Levine, Paul A., Whither Holocaust Studies in Sweden? Some Thoughts on Levande historia and Other Matters Swedish, in: Holocaust Studies; A Journal of Culture and History, vol. II, summer 2005, #1.
- Levine, Paul A., Holocaust Education in Sweden & Europe in the 21st century, in: Encyclopedia Judaica, 2nd edition, 2006.
- Levine, Paul A., From the Archive to the Classroom; Reflections on teaching the history of the Holocaust in Different Countries, in M. Goldenburger, R. Millen (eds), The Tensions of Teaching, 2007.
Notes and References
- Book: Stéphane Bruchfeld 1998 . Paul A. Levine . Tell ye your children . 1998 . Regeringskansliet . Stockholm . 91-630-7723-X . 115 .
- Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies . Uppsala . 2007 ., 1998–2007, Accomplishments and Goals.
- Book: Conference Series . Stockholms Internationella Forum (2000–Statsrådsberedningen Stockholm . 2001–2004 . Stockholms Internationella . 5.
- Anders Lange, Heléne Lööw . Stépane Bruchfeld and Ebba Hedlund . Exposure to ethnic and politically related threats, etc., the spread of racist and anti-racist propaganda as well as attitudes towards democracy etc . among school students, Center for Immigration Research . 1997 . 1997.
- Book: Anders . Lange . Heléne . Lööw . Stépane . Bruchfeld . Ebba . Hedlund . Exposure to ethnic and politically related threats, etc., the spread of racist and anti-racist propaganda as well as attitudes towards democracy etc. among school students . 1997 . Center for Immigration Research . Stockholm.
