Mscott Berkowitz News Today

A librarian at District of Columbia Public Schools who allegedly forced third-graders to reenact the Holocaust has a prior criminal record in New Jersey.

The holocaust re-enactment included one student playing Adolf Hitler, while the rest were asked to dig mass graves or simulate a shooting.

The instructor even cast one of the children as Adolf Hitler.

Young pupils allegedly forced to re-enact Holocaust in US school

Leaders for D.C. Public Schools say they're investigating the hiring of a librarian who is accused of directing third-grade students to reenact the Holocaust.

The staff member was also convicted in 2013 for a tutoring scam.

Children told to simulate digging mass graves and shoot victims; Jewish student cast as Adolf Hitler and made to pretend to commit suicide at end of exercise

A staff librarian was put on leave after students at an elementary school in Washington, D.C., were directed to simulate shootings and the digging of mass graves.

The teacher at DCs Watkins Elementary School assigned specific roles to the pre-teens in an attempt to teach the horrors. The instructor was placed on leave.

Students at an elementary school in D.C. were made to act out different scenes from the Holocaust, the school said in a letter to parents on Friday.