Teaching about Nazi Perpetrators
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Published 2015-03-26
In the video, "Teaching about Nazi Perpetrators" ISHS staff member Dr. Noa Mkayton broaches the difficult subject of the perpetrators in the Holocaust. Ms. Mkayton stresses the dangers in seeing perpetrators purely as other-worldy "monsters". Taking the case study of Paul Salitter, a German Police officer tasked with escorting a transport of some 1,000 Jews to their deaths, we see a fairly ordinary person, oblivious to the moral ramifications of his actions. In examining his depiction of the events, and contrasting it that of a Jewish deportee on that very transport, we hear and feel Salitter's disconnect from the human beings he is helping murder. In confronting the difficult questions arising from this case - questions we can't hope to fully answer - we deepen the debate over these issues, while encouraging students to be more aware of the consequences of their own actions. The materials discussed in this video are available on our website and in teaching units produced at the ISHS.
Dr. Noa Mkayton is a staff member at the International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem.
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Case Study - Paul Salitter - 2:00
Part 3 : Hilde Sherman’s Testimony - 8:54
Fuller quotes from Salitter and Sherman’s accounts, educational discussion and related materials, available in the book How Was it Humanly Possible? listed below.
secure.yadvashem.org/store/product.asp?productid=3…
Archival footage and photographs:
Yad Vashem Photo Archive.
Yad Vashem Film Archive.
Yad Vashem Archives - The Oral History Section.
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Agentur Karl Höffkes
Duesseldorf police
Wiener Library
Villa ten Hompel
Staatsarchivs Coesfeld
Stadtarchiv Hildesheim
Staatsarchivs Stuttgart
The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Music (Beeld en Geluid)
Material from:
Irena Steinfeld (ed.), How Was it Humanly Possible?, Yad Vashem 2002, 184 pages.
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Film produced by Mikooka Productions - www.mikooka.com/