Where is the love? A person-focused approach to teaching Jewish, Queer and Roma experiences of Nazi persecution

In this article, Jacob Thorpe relates his attempts to humanise the teaching of Nazi persecutions by focusing on individuals’ experiences and identity. Deep immersion in the sources enabled him to find the stories fitting his key themes of love, community, identity and culture. Thorpe built on the work of other teacher-researchers working on the Jewish, Queer and Roma victims of the Holocaust, and made extensive use of online archives to find his material. The key to his approach is to humanise those whose lives might otherwise be taught almost entirely in relation to their persecution and deaths...