Teaching the Holocaust wWthin the Domain of Religious Education

The aim of this chapter is to analyse how the messages of the Holocaust can be incorporated into Religious Education. This will enable educators to draw general conclusions in regard to the implementation of ‘culture of remembrance’ into the scholarship of Religious Education globally. The article analyses the role of memory in the Jewish religious tradition. It suggest a typology that investigates the periodization of the process of the development and shaping of the memory of the Holocaust in Israel’s public sphere and its possible implications for the conceptualization of educational processes in general and in Religious Education specifically. The Holocaust is considered one of the main issues that cause people to think about God. In fact, Holocaust Education has affected the goals of Religious Education because it changed the way in which we perceive and define human beings. It has also changed the perception of human beings as being made in God’s image. A strong element of religious belief is the concept of freedom of choice between good and evil. The Holocaust should not be viewed as a unique historical issue that relates to a specific nation but rather as a moral and religious threat to liberal values and human rights that was committed by apparently ‘civilized people’ who chose to cling to that evil