The Australian Hellenic Educators’ Association in New South Wales, the ACT and Queensland have welcomed the decision to make mandatory Holocaust education compulsory.
The association recently stated that: “The Australian Hellenic Educators’ Association welcomes the announcement of the NSW Board of Studies that study of the Holocaust will be mandatory for Year 10 students from 2014.
According to history teacher and AHEA President Panayiotis Diamadis, “This decision provides scope for Australian students to learn about the Hellenic, Armenian and Assyrian Genocide as a precursor to the Jewish Genocide two decades later.”
The Hellenic and Jewish Genocides are a part of Australian history and deserve a place in the Australian History curricula, he said. ANZACs witnessed the Hellenic, Armenian and Assyrian Genocides during World War One. Between the 1910’s and the 1960’s, tens of thousands of genocide survivors found safe haven in Australia, including Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, and Jews.
The Australian Hellenic Educators’ Association NSW-ACT-QLD will be working with the Federation of Pontian Associations of Australia, the Armenian National Committee, the Assyrian Universal Alliance as well as the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies and the Sydney Jewish Museum on the initiative.
(Source:jwire.com)
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