The Importance of Genocide Education
By Kim Klett, PHA board member and educator April 2023 “April is the cruelest month,” wrote poet T.S. Eliot, and looking at the genocidal acts and human rights violations that have occurred in April, he was correct. As we enter April and Genocide Remembrance Month, it is imperative to remember, reflect, and strive to do better in combatting genocide wherever and whenever we see it happening. This April, students in my year-long Holocaust Literature course continue learning about Rwanda and will begin learning about genocide in Darfur. Darfur was the first “other genocide” I began teaching after I had started this course (then semester-long) in 2000. The first few years of the course, I only focused on the Holocaust, as…