The Shoah and sensitive topics

raising awareness in the process of teaching and learning History at school and beyond

Abstract

The aim of this article is to bring to light reflections on the need to encourage and raise awareness of the collective good based on the relevance of teaching and learning about human rights in a continuous and globalized way, guided by the transformation of contexts that refer to intolerance, whose guiding thread aims to develop (ponder)actions that go beyond the transmission of knowledge and highlights the Shoah as a sensitive topic among many others because of the traumatic experiences that marked this event. In order to do this, it is necessary to conceptualize and explain the Shoah, as well as to bring to light the issues that are intrinsic to it, such as the political repression that is part of the regular framework of Nazi actions, as well as the racial extermination that they made seem "natural" or were naturalized by them at that time, it is also necessary to turn to the singularity of the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" and the persecution perpetuated against differences, the physically and/or mentally disabled, homosexuals, gypsies and Jehovah's Witnesses in this context. Our dialogues focused on sources such as the Nuremberg Laws (1935), the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and works by Michel Pollack (1989), Makchwell Coimbra Narcizo (2019), Márcio Seligmann-Silva (1999), Maria Luiza T. Carneiro (2010;2017), Primo Levi (1988), among others.