The theme of Seton Hill University's 2009 Ethel LeFrak Conference was Holocaust Education in the 21st Century: Religious and Cultural Perspecitives, and its message was clear: Learn the lessons of the past. Teach a new generation. Prevent such things from happening again - to anyone, anywhere, at any time.\And yet, if truth be told, how successful have we been when it comes to teaching about the Holocaust, learning from it, and preventing genocide? Have we, in fact, learned from history? Not everyone agrees that we have learned from the past for the sake of a better, more humane future for all peoples.\Learn. Teach Prevent. includes essays about art and literature, rescuers and bystanders, interreligious dialogue and new technologies for teaching, and there are also essays about the Holocaust and other genocides. Well-known scholars like Michael Berenbaum, John Pawlikowski, and Steven Leonard Jacobs have contributed essays, as have newer, younger scholars who are just beginning to make their mark in the world of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. This is what makes Learn. Teach. Prevent. so interesting. Every paper also includes Questions for Discussion, as well as a Bibliography of readings for further study.

Learn, teach, prevent / Carol Rittner -- Tribute to Ethel LeFrak / Gemma Del Duca -- Section I: Interreligious dialogue : challenges and opportunities. Interreligious dialogue since the Holocaust : turning points and next steps / Victoria J. Barnett -- The memory of the Holocaust : challenges to twenty-first century Christians and Jews / Michael Berenbaum -- Coming of age during the Holocaust, coming of age now : challenges, opportunities, and necessities related to interreligious dialogue / Elizabeth Edelstein and Elena Procario-Foley -- Education of peacemakers : challenges and opportunities in interreligious dialogue in undergraduate education / Diane Bliss and Margaret Murphy -- Auschwitz Carmel : introducing students to the complexities of interreligious dialogue / Linda S. Harrington -- Catholicism and human rights in light of the Shoah / John T. Pawlikowski -- Section II: Bystanders, resistance, rescue. Passivity of the "ordinary" German : factors leading to the evolution and implementation of the final solution / Michelle Horvath -- The Question Mark/er Project : a case study / Carol R. Brode -- Refuge, resistance, and rescue in Hungary in World War II : religious and cultural interactions / Ruth G. Biro -- My role in the Hungarian resistance and as aid provider and rescuer in Budapest : a personal perspective / Leslie Banos -- Section III: Holocaust education. Challenges to teaching the Holocaust in teacher preparation programs / Leah G. Stambler -- The historian and the Holocaust : a new Holocaust curriculum / Irene Ann Resenly -- Shotgun approach to Holocaust education : firing it out, hoping it hits and sticks / Mary E. Haas and Robert A. Waterson -- The wonder of their voices : using the voices of the survivors in the twenty-first-century classroom / Lisa Muller -- The children of the Holocaust : an important focus for the twenty-first century / Judith A. Vogel -- Children and the Holocaust : universal aspects / Jennifer L. Goss -- A team-taught, introductory, interdisciplinary Holocaust course : the advantages and challenges / Mark Frisch -- Team-teaching the Holocaust at a Jesuit university / Carl Schaffer -- Section IV: Using new technologies. Using new technologies to study and teach the Holocaust in the twenty-first century / Ephraim Kaye -- Going beyond the cognitive domain : twenty-first century students make discoveries about the Holocaust / Wayne Brinda -- Recommendations for teaching the Holocaust through film at the secondary level / Jennifer L. Goss and Sean D. Gaston -- The resistance of the White Rose : using film to promote Holocaust education / Vicky Knickerbocker -- Section V: Holocaust and genocide. "Holocaust and genocide : what's in a name?" / Steven Leonard Jacobs -- 40 years of silence : an Indonesian tragedy / Robert Lemelson and Annie Tucker -- 40 years of silence in the context of Suharto's brutal reign / James G. Paharik -- Indonesian politicide : a review of Robert Lemelson's film 40 years of silence : an Indonesian tragedy / Michael Cary -- 40 years of silence : some comments for discussion / Carol Rittner -- Appendix: Dr. Ethel LeFrak and the Seton Hill Holocaust Education Conference.