Miljenko Hajdarović has been teaching history in elementary and high schools in Croatia since 2005. He uses a variety of methods to teach about the Holocaust including analyzing primary sources, survivor testimony, literature examples, posters, documentaries, and comparing the Holocaust to modern issues. When teaching about the Holocaust, he expects students to identify human rights violations, be active citizens, and act as upstanders. Some of the projects he has done with his classes include creating a classroom Holocaust museum, telling the story of two boys, and profiling the story of a boy named Tommy.

1. Teaching Holocaust
(Anne Frank House, Amsterdam, 20-22 November 2013)
by Miljenko Hajdarović
Čakovec High School, Croatia

2. Teaching experience
• History in elementary school since 2005
• History, sociology and politics in high school since 2012
• Holocaust is an obligatory topic in Croatian curriculum

3. Teaching methods
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analyzing textual and graphic sources (photos, propaganda
posters)
survivor testimony
literature examples
posters
exhibition
documentary
comparison with today's issues

4. Expectations from students
• identifying violations of human rights
• active citizenship
• upstander

5. Teaching about Holocaust projects

6. Classroom Holocaust Museum
2008/2009

7. Story about two boys
2011/2012

8. Tommy’s story
2012/2013

9. TH.net
2013/2014

10. Teacher in-service training
• dissemination to regional level  Regional seminar about
human rights
• Association for education and human rights promotion
(www.ljudskaprava.net)