I taught 6 graders at my parish for 20 years. For our lesson on Living Your Faith, I brought in a DVD on Dachau. There was an interview with a priest that was imprisoned there.
My students learned a lot that night, never heard an objection from their parents.
But third graders? No way, much too young.
Our Polish neighbor was a POW in Auschwitz. He was one who sabotaged planes in the factory
Once in a lineup where every other man was shot
Actually forced to feed bodies into the ovens
Nobody knew his history until he died and his Polish born daughter let a local newspaper write a story about it
Chilling stuff, for sure
My daughter learned about the Holocaust at a very young age - 4th grade I think? I think it was reading the Diary of Anne Frank that got her started and then she became obsessed with it. She gave a book report about it and the other kids said she was making it up.
The teacher assured them that it was true, and they would learn more about it when they were older.
But 3rd grade and doing a reinactment of shootings and burials? That’s just nuts.