A new campaign tries to get both parties to embrace Holocaust education — while the survivors can still help tell the story
about the Holocaust. The movement to fill the gap has brought together leaders of varied religious faiths and, often, opposing political blocs—and Arizona has emerged as something of a test case.
So far, however, the Holocaust bill appears to be a model of how different parties can find some common ground by looking through their own distinct lenses. It was introduced by a Democrat, 26-year-old Rep. Alma Hernandez from Tucson, and won the early support of the Republican House speaker, Bowers, who represents the conservative bastion of Mesa andof the political left for some of his views on social issues.
For supporters, the bill has an urgency that goes beyond the unsettling prospect that American kids don’t know about a horrifying event in living memory. As other states consider similar bills, Holocaust survivors themselves are dying off. The very youngest are now entering their 80s and there is a fleeting opportunity for the cause’s most convincing advocates to help make the case.
“I show them on the screen nasty pictures,” Knoblauch told members of the Education Committee. “They need to know this. They need to know the truth. Let’s not hide the truth. Let’s teach it openly. Let them know this. Let them become better citizens. Let them create a better country.” Benkert worries that without the survivors, and the immediacy they lend, all the commemorating and chronicling of the Holocaust—the memorials and museums, the films like “Schindler’s List”—will still fail to keep the horror and its lessons sufficiently alive in the public consciousness.
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