Holocaust Studies,but Not Sarkozy’s Way

The French Education Ministry has effectively scuttled a plan, proposed by President Nicolas Sarkozy in February, to require that every fifth grader study the life of one of the 11,000 French children killed in the Holocaust, the newspaper Le Monde reported. The plan had already been changed to suggest that each fifth-grade class study one dead French child; now classes will simply study the young Holocaust victims as a whole, including survivors. In fact, study of the Holocaust in general has been a part of the fifth-grade curriculum since 2002.