Auschwitz is the most commonly taught concentration and death camp within schools across the world, but it was not the only camp.

 

Why do our schools not teach about the others? Why do we, as a society not learn about the other death camps or concentration camps? Why do we only learn about the camp that had the most murders?

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It was only when I came to Wittenberg that I learned about Treblinka and the violence that occurred there. It is here that I learned about the revolt within Treblinka that lead to the escape of 200 prisoners. Despite the escape attempt during the revolt, only 67-70 of those 200 escapees survived, as they were hunted down by Nazis for their escape. Yet I learned about none of this until my Senior year at Wittenberg. 

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Why do we, as students not learn about this when we study the Holocaust in high school? We study Pearl Harbor, D-day, Auschwitz, the gas chambers, and the basics of how Hitler came to power but we don't examine the other Death camps, the inner workings of them, or the deaths, why? What are we so afraid of exposing our children to? They are already exposed to violence on the streets of our own streets, why not show them the reality of our history?

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Why do we study our countries involvement in the war and place a minimal effort on studying the camps and survivor accounts?