Western society is not about truth anymore.  The truth will not set you free, instead it will irrevocably damage your children and their self esteem.  Shame on the parents and the school district in this case.  The parents are idiots and the district administrators have zero intellectual integrity which they demonstrates by bowing to this idiot parent.  The quest to protect people from the truth continues .

I just think it is a shame that people are so shallow about this stuff.  It is like when they ban Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer except in this case it is worse because they are watering down reality to suit some narrow interest.  All in all, a shame.  >:( :-[

How much do you want to bet that that would not happen in many schools today because of the risk of “traumatizing” the children?  We sanitize and water down the telling of the past at our own peril.  We took my son to visit his first concetration camp last summer when he was 13, he knew of the holocaust but actually walking through the camp and seeing the crematorium brought it home to him in a way that powerpoint slides never could.  I imagine that it had somewhat the same effect as listening to a holocaust survivor speak of their experiences.  We should not hide the past.

I have been to several and all are different and similar and profound.  The reality and enormity of the holocaust hit me several years ago when I visited Buchenwald.  My wife and I went to Wiemar to see the Goethe House and went to Buchenwald because it was right there and the weather was nice as an unplanned side trip.  Buchenwald was a work camp and not an extermination camp so only had a small 4 oven crematoria.  The reality hit in the crematoria building, which is in a separate walled compound within the camp itself.  In the autopsy room there is a door leading to the courtyard and on the wall there was picture of the same courtyard from the same viewpoint on the day the camp was liberated.  The courtyard had a pile of emaciated bodies in it.  It was very eerie looking from the picture to the courtyard that now has a small memorial plaque with flowers in it.  It sent shivers up my spine thinking I was standing in the exact same spot.  I have been to several other memorials in Europe and the States but Buchenwald made it real.Perhaps the most overbearing memorial I have seen is in Boston.  It consists of a series of stacks supposed to represent smokestacks from the crematoria and when you stand in them it is supposed to replicate the smell of burning bodies.  First it does not, bodies smell different when they burn, the best description I have heard and is close is burning pork.  Second it all seems contrived.  If I were a holocaust survivor the memorial in Boston would offend me because it is so shallow.

Yes, that is the one.  Right downtown by Faneuil Hall Marketplace.  The New England Holocaust Memorial website explains it in very nice insipid post-modernist terms.

The design utilizes uniquely powerful symbols of the Holocaust. The Memorial features six luminous glass towers, each 54 feet high. The towers are lit internally to gleam at night. They are set on a black granite path, each one over a dark chamber which carries the name of one of the principal Nazi death camps. Smoke rises from charred embers at the bottom of these chambers. Six million numbers are etched in glass in an orderly pattern, suggesting the infamous tattooed numbers and ghostly ledgers of the Nazi bureaucracy. Evocative and rich in metaphor, the six towers recall the six main death camps, the six million Jews who died, or a menorah of memorial candles.

 I like how the memorial fails to mention anybody but the Jews, as if it was only Jews who suffered under the Nazi's.  An example is this guy: St. Maximilian Kolbe who has a memorial shrine in my Local parish and many other Roman Catholic churches here in Germany.

Out of over 60 million people killed…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties My own grandpa fell from a watchtower during WWII, ...drunk ...   (sorry, I can't help it  :P)

Casualty numbers are notoriously hard to pin down even for WWII.  When the numbers start to get huge as in the case of Russia, China, and Germany they are approximations at best.  Many authorities refuse to say this though and either present a wide range or a number from the middle and call it a fact.  In the three countries I mentioned you could probably just throw up your hands and say "I don't know, but it was a lot" and be just as accurate as any number you will ever see.

I agree but even if the Holocaust is a genocide, terrible and to be condemned, it is part of the WWII context.