I’m not just talking about Neo-Nazis and other hate groups that are easy for some to brush off as irrelevant fringe groups. I knew antisemitism has existed throughout the long history of the Jewish people, and I knew it was still out there. By the time I was their age, I had known about Hitler, the death camps, and related monstrosities for many years. I don’t know how much, if anything, your students have learned about the Holocaust. Maus not only taught me about The Holocaust in ways that I hadn’t yet absorbed from conventional education, but about life after trauma, about the pain children inherit from their parents, and about hope. It saddens me to think that your students will be deprived of that experience. Regardless, I am now a 30-year-old man and can confidently tell you Maus changed my life for the better. I didn’t find it in school nor was it assigned reading I simply discovered it. I was just 13 when I read Maus for the first time.
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