Introduction

In this post I will hopefully have explained to you, the reader, about the Facing History Course and assume that you have never heard of Facing History and Ourselves and the reasons as to why I chose to take this course in the first place along with some personal information. When I had Mr. Gallagher as a History teacher my sophomore year, he told our class he had just created a new elective course about the Holocaust. I knew I wanted to take this course because I can understand Mr. Gallagher’s teaching style. In the beginning, I really took this course because I heard students get to watch movies, and there was little homework. I also wanted to take this course because in the ten years of learning of our countrys’ history, I have never once learned about the Holocaust. I don’t know if that part of history was skipped over because some people believed it never happened, or if some educators believed it was too inappropriate of a topic for students to learn about in school. I wanted to learn why the Jewish race was hated, why we never heard of a Jewish rebellion, or why no one person had the guts to tell Hitler to stop the mass murdering of millions of innocent Jewish people. When senior year came around, I realized this course would not be an easy A course. Each day we watched films about the Holocaust, horrifying, unbelievable movies that were either based off of the Holocaust or were stories about the holocaust. I really can’t stand seeing movies with guts, blood, or any type of violence, so it was very difficult for me to watch. I would much rather go outside and play soccer, a pick up basketball or softball with my friends. But nope, I stayed in the classroom and listened to every film no matter how disgusting and heart wrenching it was.