Oakman High Teacher Leading Holocaust Education In America

By Nicole SmithDaily Mountain Eagle

Jeremy Brown wants to bring history alive for his students — one personal account at a time.

In Brown’s social studies classroom at Oakman High School, he is sharing his passion for Holocaust studies with his students and creating scholars of the genocide.

Instead of teaching students only a brief history of the Holocaust found in their textbooks, he’s relaying information he has learned through a fellowship program with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., along with the knowledge he has gained through his in-depth study of the Holocaust since 2008.According to the museum’s website, “The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. … The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were ‘racially superior’ and that the Jews, deemed ‘inferior,’ were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.”

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