Samuel Totten is currently a professor of Curriculum & Instruction in the College of Education at the University of Arkansas since 1987. Dr. Totten earned a master’s degree and a doctorate degree at a teacher’s college, Columbia University. He, also, earned a BA and MA in English from California State University in Sacramento and Long Beach. In addition to, teaching in the Middle Level Masters of Arts program, he is Director of the Northwest Arkansas Writing Project, a member of the Council of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide. Dr. Totten has served as a book review editor of the Journal of Genocide Research and co-editor of Genocide Studies and Prevention, an international journal. He is the author of several articles, essays and books on the Holocaust and genocide education. Dr. Totten has received many awards for his work and contribution to education and research. He is a member of the National Council of Social Studies. Throughout Samuel Totten’s article’s, he has demonstrated his passion for what he believes in, and what is important to him in his teachings. Dr. Totten has heard numerous times from people, “Why teach about the Holocaust?” The Holocaust is one of the most horrendous events in the history of the world. Most people don’t realize how it has affected our society as a whole. They would rather forget history than to relive the event that was so inhumane. Dr. Totten tries to convey to his readers why it is important to teach the Holocaust. The Holocaust is a historical event that has been committed by a group of human beings against another that is immoral. Teaching students to understand how it happened, why it happened and how to prevent it from happening again is the only way we as humans can make a change in the world. As written in the article, “the Holocaust constitutes that it’s a systematic, bureaucratic annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and their collaborators as a central act of state during World War II.” Dr. Totten speaks how teachers need to teach their students that the Holocaust was not spontaneous but systematic. The Holocaust was a planned event that was carried out by a higher authority and subjected throughout many countries. After the Holocaust, people expected that the world would be a different place. However, things did not change. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum explains that genocide is an act committed with intent to destroy against other groups. Today, genocidal acts continu