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SCHOOL OF SCHOOL OF SCHOOL OF SCHOOL OF HUMANITIESHUMANITIESHUMANITIESHUMANITIES
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Historical PerspectiveHistorical PerspectiveHistorical PerspectiveHistorical Perspective
SUMMER SUMMER SUMMER SUMMER SESSION, SESSION, SESSION, SESSION, 2013201320132013, U1B, U1B, U1B, U1B
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TABLE OF CONTENTSTABLE OF CONTENTSTABLE OF CONTENTSTABLE OF CONTENTS
COURSE STAFFCOURSE STAFFCOURSE STAFFCOURSE STAFF ........................................................................................................... 3
COURSE DETAILSCOURSE DETAILSCOURSE DETAILSCOURSE DETAILS ........................................................................................................ 3
COURSE AIMSCOURSE AIMSCOURSE AIMSCOURSE AIMS ............................................................................................................. 3
STUDENT LEARNING OUTSTUDENT LEARNING OUTSTUDENT LEARNING OUTSTUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMESCOMESCOMESCOMES ............................................................................... 3
LEARNING AND TEACHINLEARNING AND TEACHINLEARNING AND TEACHINLEARNING AND TEACHING RATIONALEG RATIONALEG RATIONALEG RATIONALE ...................................................................... 4
TEACHING STRATEGIESTEACHING STRATEGIESTEACHING STRATEGIESTEACHING STRATEGIES .............................................................................................. 4
BACKGROUND READING:BACKGROUND READING:BACKGROUND READING:BACKGROUND READING: ............................................................................................ 5
COURSE SCHEDULECOURSE SCHEDULECOURSE SCHEDULECOURSE SCHEDULE .................................................................................................... 6
ASSESSMENTASSESSMENTASSESSMENTASSESSMENT ........................................................................................................... 24
ATTENDANCEATTENDANCEATTENDANCEATTENDANCE ............................................................................................................ 26
ACADEMIC HONESTY ANDACADEMIC HONESTY ANDACADEMIC HONESTY ANDACADEMIC HONESTY AND PLAGIARISMPLAGIARISMPLAGIARISMPLAGIARISM .................................................................. 26
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICYAND SAFETY POLICYAND SAFETY POLICYAND SAFETY POLICY ........................................................ 26
STUDENT EQUITY AND DSTUDENT EQUITY AND DSTUDENT EQUITY AND DSTUDENT EQUITY AND DIVERSITYIVERSITYIVERSITYIVERSITY ............................................................................ 26
OTHER STUDENT INFORMOTHER STUDENT INFORMOTHER STUDENT INFORMOTHER STUDENT INFORMATIONATIONATIONATION .............................................................................. 27
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COURSE STAFFCOURSE STAFFCOURSE STAFFCOURSE STAFF
ConvenerConvenerConvenerConvener/Lecturer/Lecturer/Lecturer/Lecturer Details:Details:Details:Details:
Name: Dr Jan Láníček
Room: Morven Brown 364
Phone: 9385 1497
Email: J.Lanicek@unsw.edu.au
Consultation Times: Mo-Fr 2-3pm;
COURSE DETAILSCOURSE DETAILSCOURSE DETAILSCOURSE DETAILS
The aim of 'Holocaust and Genocide' is to encourage an understanding of the phenomenon of
genocide through incidences of mass killing of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and
ways in which people respond to state-sponsored violence. The course predominantly focuses
on an intensive study of the Holocaust, and offers diverse perspectives on the groups of
perpetrators, victims and bystanders. The course also looks closely at other genocides
committed by Nazi Germany during the Second World War (Slavs, religious minorities,
disabled and homosexuals) and in the last part moves on to examine the Holocaust in relation
to other acts of genocide and mass killing during the twentieth and twenty-first century
(Armenian genocide, Yugoslavia and Rwanda).
Units of Credit: Units of Credit: Units of Credit: Units of Credit: 6
COURSE AIMSCOURSE AIMSCOURSE AIMSCOURSE AIMS
The aims of this course are:
• To give students an understanding of the history of the Holocaust.
• To give students an understanding of the human behaviour in face of state-sponsored
policies of mass violence against minorities.
• To introduce the main categories of actors during the Holocaust (perpetrators, victims
and bystanders/onlookers).
• To give students an overview of the relation between genocides and armed conflicts
during the twentieth century.
• To give students an introduction to the issues concerning Holocaust representation in
film and literature.
• To present comparative perspectives to the mass violence during the twentieth
century.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTSTUDENT LEARNING OUTSTUDENT LEARNING OUTSTUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMESCOMESCOMESCOMES
At the completion of this course students will be able to:
• By the end of the course students will have a good knowledge concerning the history
of the Holocaust, including its origins and the aftermath. Students will have gained
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insights into the ways in which divergent actors (perpetrators, victims and bystanders)
responded to the Nazi organized mass violence during World War 2. They will also
gain knowledge concerning the initiation and execution of the genocidal violence
during the twentieth century. Furthermore, students will have learned:
• to communicate ideas to others in a clear and concise manner, both orally and in
written form
• to approach intellectual questions in a rigorous and academic manner, employing
analytical skills and independent and reflective thinking
• to critically analyse scholarly material
LEARNING AND TEACHINLEARNING AND TEACHINLEARNING AND TEACHINLEARNING AND TEACHING RATIONALEG RATIONALEG RATIONALEG RATIONALE
The purpose of lectures is to give the students an overview of the historical events and
introduce them on major issues of Holocaust historiography. In tutorials students will be
encouraged to engage critically with primary sources and contextualise them with the
secondary readings available before the class. Students will be required to give a short tutorial
presentation (based on the available primary and secondary sources), to undertake
independent research and to write an analytical essay. The knowledge gathered during the
lectures and tutorials and the understanding of the discussed sources will be tested in the final
in-class exam. In this way, students will be able to develop the above skills in the context of
the specific learning offered by this course.
TEACHING STRATEGIESTEACHING STRATEGIESTEACHING STRATEGIESTEACHING STRATEGIES
Over the course of the semester I will use email to send important messages, reminders, or
updates to you. Please make sure that you check your university email account regularly, or
that you set it up to forward your email to another account.
All students will need to have a copy of the reading kit. The reader is available for purchase
from the UNSW Bookshop. Essential reading for each day is set out in the lecture and tutorial
program below. A part of the essential reading is available online (links are provided below),
but other resources will be accessible only in the reading kit. I understand that this is an
intensive course and that you may not have time to prepare readings for every tutorial. Hence
although I hope that all of you will at least check the readings, I expect that only those of you
having tutorial presentations will read all the secondary sources. However, I expect all of you
to be prepared to discuss the primary sources and will be able to contribute to our tutorial
discussions. Further suggested readings are listed as part of the tutorial description and at the
end of the syllabus.
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BACKGROUND READING:BACKGROUND READING:BACKGROUND READING:BACKGROUND READING:
None of these books are compulsory, but I strongly encourage you to check these volumes as
a background reading for the course. The books are accessible in the University library (or
online via the University library catalogue). The items can also be purchased in the University
bookstore.
Yehuda Bauer, A History of the Holocaust (New York: F. Watts, 1982).
Doris Bergen, War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust (Lanham: Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, 2009). Jonathan C. Friedman (ed.), Routledge History of the Holocaust (London: Routledge, 2012).
Saul Friedlaender, Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1945: Abridged Edition (New York:
HarperCollins, 2009).
Yisrael Gutman ed., Holocaust Encyclopaedia, 4 Volumes (New York: Macmillan, 1990).
Michael R. Marrus, The Holocaust in History (London: Penguin 1989).
In preparation for tutorials and for your written assignments, I strongly encourage you to
consult holdings in the University library or in the Sydney Jewish museum. You can also
consult online resources, but be extremely cautious to use only reliable websites. Please DO
NOT use www.wikipedia.org unless absolutely necessary (you are NOT allowed to use
www.wikipedia.org as a source in your essays). Although Wikipedia could often provide you
with valuable information, the nature of a free encyclopaedia does not necessarily guarantee
that only correct information is included. Rather try to check the following websites in the first
place:
www.holocuastchronicle.com
www.ushmm.org
www.yadvashem.org
www.yivoencyclopaedia.com
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COURSE SCHEDULECOURSE SCHEDULECOURSE SCHEDULECOURSE SCHEDULE
LECTURES, Biomedical Theatre A (E27)LECTURES, Biomedical Theatre A (E27)LECTURES, Biomedical Theatre A (E27)LECTURES, Biomedical Theatre A (E27)
7 January History of antisemitism
Pre-1939 European Jewish history
8 January Nazi Rise to Power
Triumph of the Will – in-class film (excerpts)
9 January Nazi Policies 1933-39
Emigration – the World and the Jews 1933-1939
10 January Survivor talk (Peter Rossler, a survivor of the Lodz ghetto and
Auschwitz)
Eugenics and the ‘Euthanasia programme’
14 January Ghettos during World War 2
A Film Unfinished – in-class film (excerpts)
15 January Radicalization of the Jewish policies (the War in the East)
The Final Solution
16 January Concentration and extermination camps
Jewish resistance
17 January Local collaborators and rescuers (Polish-Jewish relations)
In Darkness – in-class film (excerpts)
21 January Nazi Satellites and the Holocaust
Other victims of Nazi genocides (Roma, Jehovah’s Witnesses,
Homosexuals)
22 January Allies and the Holocaust (1939-1945)
Aftermath
23 January Representation of the Holocaust
Shoah – in-class film (excerpts)
24 January Genocides in the twentieth century (Armenian genocide, Cambodia,
Rwanda, Former Yugoslavia)
25 January Exam
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History of antiHistory of antiHistory of antiHistory of anti----Judaism and Judaism and Judaism and Judaism and anananantitititi----SemitismSemitismSemitismSemitism
RRRReadingeadingeadingeadingssss::::
Raul Hilberg, ‘The Destruction of the European Jews: Precedents’, in Omer Bartov (ed.), The Holocaust. Origins, Implementation, Aftermath (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 21-42.
PPPPrimary sources:rimary sources:rimary sources:rimary sources:
‘Excerpts from Martin Luther, On the Jews and Their Lies, 1543’, in Steve Hochstadt (ed.),
Sources of the Holocaust (London: Palgrave, 2004), pp. 13-15.
‘Excerpts from article ‘Jewish Morality’ in Vatican newspaper, 10 January 1893’, in Hochstadt,
pp. 19-21.
‘Excerpt from Heinrich von Treitschke, ‘Our Views’, 1879’, in Hochstadt, pp.26-8.
Wilhelm Marr, ‘The Victory of Judaism over Germandom (1879)’, in Paul Mendes-Flohr and
Jehuda Reinharz (eds.), The Jew in the Modern World. A Documentary History. Second Edition (Oxford: OUP, 1995), pp. 331-3.
Karl Eugen Duehring, ‘The Question of the Jew Is a Question of Race (1881), in Mendes-Flohr,
pp. 333-4
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, ‘The Jews: Oppressed or Oppressors? (1877)’, in Mendes Flohr, 337-338.
‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion (c. 1902)’, Mendes-Flohr, pp. 363-367.
Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:
Compare provided primary sources and discuss the transformation of anti-Jewish prejudices
across centuries.
How did anti-Jewish prejudices develop over the time?
What were the sources and origins of anti-Jewish sentiments in European societies?
What is the difference between anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism?
What was the basis of racial anti-Semitism?
How did anti-Jewish prejudices develop in the age of nationalism?
Who and why wrote the so-called Protocols of the Elders of Zion?
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8 January 2013 8 January 2013 8 January 2013 8 January 2013
Nazi Nazi Nazi Nazi ideology, ideology, ideology, ideology, propaganda and the Jewspropaganda and the Jewspropaganda and the Jewspropaganda and the Jews
ReadingReadingReadingReadingssss::::
Adolf Hitler, ‘Nation and Race’, in Simone Gigliotti and Berel Lang (eds.), The Holocaust. A Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), pp. 68-81.
Jan Grabowski, ‘German Anti-Jewish Propaganda in the Generalgouvernement, 1939–1945:
Inciting Hate through Posters, Films, and Exhibitions’, in Holocaust and Genocide
Studies, 23:3, Winter 2009, pp. 381-412
(http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/3/381.full.pdf)
Primary sources:Primary sources:Primary sources:Primary sources:
‘Children’s story from Ernst Hiemer, The Poisonous Mushroom’, in Hochstadt, pp. 52-55.
Pictures from Jeffrey Herf
http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/
Tutorial questionsTutorial questionsTutorial questionsTutorial questions (discuss images from the course reader and USHMM webpage)(discuss images from the course reader and USHMM webpage)(discuss images from the course reader and USHMM webpage)(discuss images from the course reader and USHMM webpage)::::
Summarize the ideology of ‘Race and Nation’ as depicted in Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
How did the Nazi propaganda depict the Jews between 1933 and 1945?
What was the purpose of Nazi propaganda?
How did Leni Riefenstahl depict the rebirth of the German nation? (in-class film)
What was the role played by the Nazi propaganda in the segregation of German Jews before
1939?
How did the Nazi propaganda appeal to German children?
What is the role played by propaganda in totalitarian societies?
Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:
David Bankier, The Germans and the final solution: public opinion under Nazism (Oxford:
Balckwell, 1992).
Saul Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews. Volume 1, The years of persecution, 1933-1939
(London: Phoenix, 1998).
Jeffrey Herf, The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War 2 and the Holocaust
(Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap, 2006).
Victor Klemperer, I will bear witness: a diary of the Nazi years (New York: Random House,
1998-9).
Michael R. Marrus (ed.), The Nazi Holocaust, Volume 5. Public Opinion and Relations to the Jews in Nazi Europe (Westport: Meckler, 1989).
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Probing the depths of German antisemitism: German society and the persecution of the Jews, 1933-1941 (New York: Berghahn, 2000).
Karl A. Schleunes, The twisted road to Auschwitz; Nazi policy toward German Jews, 1933-
1939 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979).
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9 9 9 9 JanJanJanJanuary 2013uary 2013uary 2013uary 2013
Jewish responses to the Nazi persecution (until 1939)Jewish responses to the Nazi persecution (until 1939)Jewish responses to the Nazi persecution (until 1939)Jewish responses to the Nazi persecution (until 1939)
Readings:Readings:Readings:Readings:
Marion Kaplan, ‘Persecution and Gender: German-Jewish responses to Persecution’ in
Jonathan C. Friedman (ed.), The Routledge History of the Holocaust (London: Routledge,
2012, pp. 90-102. (available online via the UNSW Library catalogue)
Ian Kershaw, “The Persecution of the Jews and German Popular Opinion in the Third Reich”,
Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 26, (1981), pp. 261-89.
(http://leobaeck.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/1/261.full.pdf)
Primary sources:Primary sources:Primary sources:Primary sources:
Robert Weltsch, ‘Wear the Yellow Badge with Pride (April 4, 1933), in Mendes-Flohr, pp.
640-1.
Reischsvertretung der Deutschen Juden, ‘Proclamation of the (New) Reichsvertretung, in
Mendes Flohr, pp. 643-5.
‘The Reichsvertretung addresses the Reich government’, in Lucy S. Dawidowicz (ed.), A
Holocaust Reader (New York: Behrman House, 1976), pp. 155-159.
‘The Reichsvertretung Program after the Nuremberg Laws’, in Dawidowicz, pp. 162-164.
Tutorial questionsTutorial questionsTutorial questionsTutorial questions
How did the German public opinion about the Jews develop during 1933-1939?
How did ordinary Germans respond to the gradual segregation and persecution of the Jews?
How did the German Jews respond to the Nazi racial policies?
What conditioned the decision of Jews to leave Germany and emigrate elsewhere?
Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:
Saul Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews. Volume 1, The years of persecution, 1933-1939
(London: Phoenix, 1998).
Marion Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair. Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (Oxford: OUP,
1998).
Victor Klemperer, I will bear witness: a diary of the Nazi years (New York: Random House,
1998-9).
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10 January 2013 10 January 2013 10 January 2013 10 January 2013
The Final Solution: Intentionalists and functionalistsThe Final Solution: Intentionalists and functionalistsThe Final Solution: Intentionalists and functionalistsThe Final Solution: Intentionalists and functionalists
RRRReadingeadingeadingeadingssss::::
Christopher Browning, ‘The Origins of the Final Solution’, in Jonathan C. Friedman (ed.), The Routledge History of the Holocaust (London: Routledge, 2012, pp. 156-167. (available
online via the UNSW Library catalogue)
Ian Kershaw, ‘Hitler’s role in the “Final Solution”’, Yad Vashem Studies 34, 2004, pp. 7-43
(http://www.genocideeducation.ca/kershaw.pdf) Also available in Ian Kershaw, Hitler, the
Germans and the Final Solution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 89-117
(available online via the UNSW Library catalogue).
Primary sources:Primary sources:Primary sources:Primary sources:
‘Article by Josef Goebbels on Jews in Das Reich, 16 November 1941’, in Hochstadt, pp. 129-131.
‘Adolf Hitler on the Annihilation of the Jews’, in Dawidowicz, pp. 30-33.
‘Protocols of the Wannsee Conference (January 20, 1942), in Mendes-Flohr, pp. 662-665.
Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:
How do various historians explain the origins of the Final Solution?
How can we interpret Hitler’s early proclamations on the Jewish question?
What was the relation between the war and the Holocaust?
What happened in Wannsee in January 1942?
What was Hitler’s role in the Final Solution?
Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:
Christopher Browning, Fateful months: essays on the emergence of the final solution (New
York: Holmes and Meier, 1991).
Christopher Browning, The origins of the Final Solution : the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy,
September 1939-March 1942 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004).
Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The War Against the Jews (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975).
Christian Gerlach, ‘The Wannsee Conference, the Fate of German Jews, and Hitler's Decision in
Principle to Exterminate All European Jews’, in The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 70,
No. 4 (Dec., 1998), pp. 759-812 (available online)
Ian Kershaw, Hitler, the Germans and the Final Solution (New Haven: Yale University Press,
2008).
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14 January 201314 January 201314 January 201314 January 2013
Ordinary men or ordinary GermansOrdinary men or ordinary GermansOrdinary men or ordinary GermansOrdinary men or ordinary Germans? Motivations for mass murder? Motivations for mass murder? Motivations for mass murder? Motivations for mass murder
RRRReadingeadingeadingeadingssss::::
Christopher Browning, ‘Ordinary Germans or Ordinary Men?’, in Michael Berenbaum and
Abraham J. Peck (eds.), The Holocaust and History. The Known, the Unknown, the
Disputed, and the Reexamined (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998), pp. 252-
265.
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, ‘Ordinary Men or Ordinary Germans?’ in Michael Berenbaum and
Abraham J. Peck (eds.), The Holocaust and History. The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and
the Reexamined (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998), pp. 301-307.
Primary sources:Primary sources:Primary sources:Primary sources:
Gitta Sereny, Into that Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder (London: Deutsch,
1974), excerpts (course reader).
Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:
Discuss the views of Goldhagen and Browning on the German participation in the Nazi plans
of the Final Solution.
Were the Germans who took part in the mass murder of the Jews ‘ordinary men’ or ‘Hitler’s
willing executioners’?
Who was Franz Stangl?
How does Stangl explain the Nazi extermination of the Jews?
Was Stangl an ordinary man or an ordinary German?
How did he explain his participation in the Holocaust?
Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:
Christopher Browning, Ordinary men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the final solution in Poland (New York: Aaron Asher Books, 1992).
Daniel J. Goldhagen, Hitler's willing executioners : ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (New
York: Knopf, 1996).
Ernst Klee et al. (eds.) "The Good old days" : the Holocaust as seen by its perpetrators and
bystanders (New York: Free Press, 1991).
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15 January 201315 January 201315 January 201315 January 2013
Jewish Councils (Jewish Councils (Jewish Councils (Jewish Councils (JudenraeteJudenraeteJudenraeteJudenraete) and Police: Collaboration?) and Police: Collaboration?) and Police: Collaboration?) and Police: Collaboration?
RRRReadings:eadings:eadings:eadings:
Celel Perechodnik, Am I a Murderer? Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman (Oxford:
WestviewPress, 1996), pp. 25-52.
Primo Levi, ‘Gray Zone’, in Omer Bartov (ed.), The Holocaust: origins, Implementation,
Aftermath (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 251-272.
Primary sources:Primary sources:Primary sources:Primary sources:
‘From the Minute Book of the Lublin Judenrat’ AND ‘From the Minute Book of the Bialystok
Judenrat’ (EXCERPTS), in Dawidowicz, pp. 264-69; 276-80; 283-7.
‘Rumkowski’s Address at the Time of the Deportation of the Children from the Lodz Ghetto,
September 4, 1942’ AND ‘Notes by a Jewish Observer in the Lodz Ghetto following the
Deportation of the Children’ , in Yitzhak Arad et al. (eds.) Documents on the Holocaust
(Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1981), pp. 283-86.
Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:
What do you understand as Jewish collaboration with the Nazis?
Discuss memoirs by Celel Perechodnik.
Who was Mordechai Rumkowski?
What does Primo Levi understand under the term ‘Gray zone’?
What was the function of the Jewish Councils? Were they collaborators in the destruction of
the Jews?
Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:
Gordon J. Horwitz, Ghettostadt: Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City (Cambridge, Mass.:
Belknap, 2008).
Patterns of Jewish Leadership in Nazi Europe, 1933-1945, Proceedings of the Third Yad Vashem International Historical Conference. (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1979).
Isaiah Trunk, Judenrat: the Jewish councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi occupation (New York:
Macmillan, 1972).
Isaiah Trunk, Łódź Ghetto: a history (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006).
Leonard Tushnet, The Pavement of Hell (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1972).
The Warsaw diary of Adam Czerniakow : prelude to doom (New York: Stein and Day, 1979).
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16 January 201316 January 201316 January 201316 January 2013
RRRResistanceesistanceesistanceesistance
RRRReadings:eadings:eadings:eadings:
Yehuda Bauer, “Jewish Resistance – Myth or Reality?,” in Rethinking the Holocaust (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), pp. 119-142.
Nechama Tec, ‘Reflections on Resistance and Gender’, in Remembering for the Future. The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide, Volume 1 (London: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 552-569.
Primary sources:Primary sources:Primary sources:Primary sources:
Call for resistance in the Vilna Ghetto, January 1942, in Hochstadt, pp. 186-8.
‘From Justina’s Diary: Resistance in Cracow’, in Dawidowicz, pp. 340-347.
‘Address by Gens on the Danger of bringing Arms into the Vilna Ghetto, May 15, 1943’, in
Arad et al., pp. 453-455.
‘Proclamation by the F.P.O. calling for Revolt in Vilna, September 1, 1943’, in Arad et al., pp.
459-460.
Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:
How would you define Jewish resistance to the Nazis?
What does Yehuda Bauer understand under the term Amidah?
How does Nechama Tec understand the term resistance?
What role did women play in the resistance during World War 2?
Further readings:Further readings:Further readings:Further readings:
Yehuda Bauer, “Unarmed Resistance and Other Responses,” in Rethinking the Holocaust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), 143-166.
James M. Glass, Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust : Moral Uses of Violence and Will
(Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004).
Michael R. Marrus (ed.), The Nazi Holocaust, Volume 7., Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust (Westport: Meckler, 1989).
Yuri Suhl, The Fought Back: The Story of Jewish Resistance in Nazi Europe (New York:
Schocken Books, 1975).
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17 January 201317 January 201317 January 201317 January 2013
ConcentratiConcentratiConcentratiConcentration on on on and extermination campsand extermination campsand extermination campsand extermination camps
RRRReadings:eadings:eadings:eadings:
Franciszek Piper, ‘Auschwitz Concentration Camp’, in Michael Berenbaum and Abraham J.
Peck (eds.), The Holocaust and History. The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the
Reexamined (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998), pp. 371-386.
Primary sources:Primary sources:Primary sources:Primary sources:
Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen (London: Penguin, 1980), pp.
29-49.
Primo Levi, If this is a man (New York: Orion, 1959), pp. 15-34.
Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:
What does Borowski’s account tell us about the life in Auschwitz?
What were the main purposes of Nazi concentration camps?
Who were the victims of the Nazi camps?
Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:
Yitzhak Arad, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: Operation Reinhard Death Camps (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1987).
Deborah Dwork – Robert Jan van Pelt, Auschwitz, 1270 to the Present (New York: Norton,
1996).
Yisrael Gutman – Michael Berenbaum (eds.), Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994).
Rudolf Höss, Death Dealer: the Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz (Buffalo:
Prometheus Press, 1992).
Filip Müller, Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee,
1992).
Sarah Nomberg-Przytyk, Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land (Chapel Hill: The
University of North Carolina Press, 1986).
Wolfgang Sofsky, The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1997).
Tzvetan Todorov, Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps (New York::
Metropolitan Press, 1996).
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Bystanders, onlookers (local population)Bystanders, onlookers (local population)Bystanders, onlookers (local population)Bystanders, onlookers (local population)
RRRReadingeadingeadingeadingssss::::
Jan Grabowski, ‘Rural Society and the Jews in Hiding: Elders, Night Watches. Firefighters,
Hostages and Manhunts’, in Yad Vashem Studies, Volume 40:1, 2012, pp. 49-74.
David Engel, ‘An Early Account of Polish Jewry under Nazi and Soviet Occupation Presented to
the Polish Government-in-Exile, February 1940’, in Jewish Social Studies, Vol. 45, No. 1
(Winter, 1983), pp. 1-16. (available via jstor.org)
[http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/4467201.pdf?acceptTC=true]
Primary sources:Primary sources:Primary sources:Primary sources:
In-class Film: Agnieszka Holland, In Darkness (excerpts)
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Protest (the course reader)
Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:
Who was a bystander? Do you agree with the term being used in the Holocaust
historiography?
Grabowski describes the so-called Judenjagd. What was it and why did the local population
collaborate with the Nazis?
What conditioned locals’ decisions whether to help or betray the Jews?
How did Karski describe Polish-Jewish relations in occupied Poland? Why did he prepare two
versions of the account? Why and how did the versions differ?
Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:
Steven K. Baum, The psychology of genocide : perpetrators, bystanders, and rescuers
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
East European Politics and Society, Volume 25 (3), August 2011 – the whole volume focuses
on Polish-Jewish relations during World War 2 (available online).
Jan T. Gross, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).
Raul Hilberg, Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe, 1933-1945 (New
York: Aaron Asher, 1992).
Klee, Ernst, et.al. The Good Old Days: the Holocaust as seen by its Perpetrators and Bystanders (New York: the Free Press, 1991).
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Allies and the Holocaust: Allies and the Holocaust: Allies and the Holocaust: Allies and the Holocaust: the World responds to genocidesthe World responds to genocidesthe World responds to genocidesthe World responds to genocides
RRRReadings:eadings:eadings:eadings:
Tony Kushner, ‘Different worlds: British perceptions of the Final Solution during the Second
World War’, in David Cesarani, The Final Solution. Origins and Implementation, pp.
246-268.
Miroslav Karny, ‘The Vrba and Wetzler Report’, in Yisrael Gutman – Michael Berenbaum
(eds.), Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana
University Press, 1994), pp. 553-568.
Primary Sources:Primary Sources:Primary Sources:Primary Sources:
The UN Declaration and the following debate in the House of Commons (17 December 1942)
(http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1942/dec/17/united-nations-declaration)
Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:
What were the Auschwitz Protocols? Did they make any impact in the West?
How would you describe the responses of the Allies to the persecution of the Jews?
What conditioned, according to Kushner, the responses of the western governments?
What can the Allies’ responses to the Holocaust teach us about our contemporary responses
to genocides?
Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:
Richard Breitman – Alan M. Kraut, American refugee policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987).
Jan Karski, Story of a Secret State (Boston: Houghon Mifflin, 1944).
Tony Kushner, The persistence of prejudice : antisemitism in British society during the Second World War (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989).
Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999).
William Rubinstein, Myth of Rescue: why the democracies could not have saved more Jews from the Nazis (London: Routledge, 1997).
E. Thomas Wood – Stanislw M. Jankowski, Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust
(New York: Wiley and Sons, 1996).
David S. Wyman, Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust (New York: Pantheon,
1984).
David S. Wyman, ‘Why Auschwitz Wasn’t Bombed’, in Yisrael Gutman – Michael Berenbaum
(eds.), Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana
University Press, 1994), pp. 553-568.
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RepreRepreRepreRepresentation of the Holocaust: sentation of the Holocaust: sentation of the Holocaust: sentation of the Holocaust: case studies of case studies of case studies of case studies of ShoahShoahShoahShoah aaaandndndnd MausMausMausMaus
RRRReadingeadingeadingeadingssss::::
Shoshana Felman, ‘In an Era of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah’, Yale French Studies, no. 79, Spring 1991, pp. 39-81. (http://www.jstor.org/stable/2930246)
James E Young, ‘The Holocaust as Vicarious Past: Art Spiegelman's Maus and the Afterimages
of History,’ Critical Inquiry 24, no. 3 (1998), pp. 666-699.
(http://www.jstor.org/stable/1344086)
Primary sources:Primary sources:Primary sources:Primary sources:
Art Spiegelman, Maus. A Survivor’s Tale (New York: Pantheon, 1986), pp. 73-93.
Art Spiegelman, Maus II. A Survivor’s Tale. And Here my Troubles began (New York: Penguin
Books, 1991), pp. 24-37.
Shoah (we will watch parts in our lecture) you can also watch the whole film at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XNIrrJe_7g
Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:
What are the problems of representing the Holocaust (Maus)?
What is the so-called second generation (Maus)?
Are there any limits of representation (Maus)?
Is it possible to reveal the horrors of the Holocaust in a comic book?
How do Lanzmann and Spiegelman depict perpetrators, bystanders and victims?
What role do testimonies play in our understanding and comprehending of the Holocaust?
FurtheFurtheFurtheFurther reading:r reading:r reading:r reading:
Claude Lanzmann, ‘The Obscenity of Understanding: An Evening with Claude Lanzmann’ in
Cathy Caruth, ed., Trauma: Explorations in Memory (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1995), pp. 200-220.
Claude Lanzmann, ‘Seminar with Claude Lanzmann: 11 April 1990’, Yale French Studies, no.
79, January 1991, pp. 82-99.
Art Spiegelman, Maus II. A Survivor’s Tale. And Here my Troubles began (New York: Penguin
Books, 1991).
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The Holocaust and The Holocaust and The Holocaust and The Holocaust and other other other other genocides genocides genocides genocides
RRRReadingeadingeadingeadings:s:s:s:
Mark Levene, ‘Is the Holocaust Simply Another Example of Genocide?, in Simone Gigliotti and
Berel Lang, The Holocaust. A Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), pp. 420-447.
Yehuda Bauer, ‘On the Holocaust and other genocides’, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff
Annual Lecture, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum, 2006.
(http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/publications/occasional/2007-03/paper.pdf)
Primary sources:Primary sources:Primary sources:Primary sources:
‘International Tribunal Judgement against Radislav Krstić’, in Hochstadt, p. 288-90.
Text of the UN Declaration on Genocide, in Alexander Laban Hinton (ed.), Genocide: An
Anthropological Reader (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002), pp. 43-47.
Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:Tutorial questions:
Was the Holocaust a unique event in history?
What is the difference, if any, between the Holocaust and genocides?
How would you define genocide? Give some examples.
What is ethnic cleansing?
Can you see any omissions in the UN Convention on Genocide? Debate.
Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:Further reading:
Yehuda Bauer, Rethinking the Holocaust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), pp. 39-
67.
Donald Bloxham, ‘Organized Mass Murder: Structure, Participation, and Motivation in
Comparative Perspective’, in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 22:2, Fall 2008, pp.
203-245 (online).
Alexander Laban Hinton (ed.), Genocide: An Anthropological Reader (Oxford: Blackwell
Publishers, 2002).
A. Dirk Moses and Donald Bloxham, ‘Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing’, in Political Violence in Twentieth Century Europe, pp. 87-139.
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Suggested further reSuggested further reSuggested further reSuggested further readingadingadingading On the Holocaust:On the Holocaust:On the Holocaust:On the Holocaust:
Alan Adelson and Robert Lapides (eds,), Lodz Ghetto: Inside a Community Under Siege (New
York: Viking, 1989).
Jacques Adler, “The Nazi-Imposed Jewish Councils. A Critical View.” In Mark Baker, ed. History
on the Edge. Melbourne, 1997. 220-43.
Jean Amery, At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor of Auschwitz. New York,
1986.
Yitzhak Arad et al. (eds.) Documents on the Holocaust (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1981).
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York: Penguin,
1963).
Omer Bartov (ed.), Holocaust: Origins, Implementation, Aftermath (New York: Routledge,
2000).
Yehuda Bauer, Rethinking the Holocaust (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2001).
Yehuda Bauer, The Death of the Shtetl (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009).
Michael Berenbaum and Abraham Peck (eds.), The Holocaust and History: the Known, the Unknown, the Disputed and the Reexamined. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (in
association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.),
1998.
Randolph L. Braham (ed.), The Destruction of Romanian and Ukrainian Jews During the Antonescu era (Boulder: Social Science Monographs; New York: 1997).
Christopher R. Browning, Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2000).
Christopher Browning, The origins of the Final Solution : the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy,
September 1939-March 1942 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004).
Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen (London: Penguin, 1980).
David Cesarani (ed.), Genocide and Rescue: the Holocaust in Hungary 1944 (Oxford: Berg,
1997).
Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The War Against the Jews (New York: New York : Holt, Rinehart and
Winston, 1975).
Terence Des Pres, The Survivor: an Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1976).
Thomas P. DiNapoli (ed.), The Italian Jewish experience (Stony Brook, NY: Forum Italicum,
2000).
Lucjan Dobroszycki (ed.), The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto 1941-1944 (New Haven: Yal;e
University Press, 1984).
Henry Friedlander, The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995).
Jacob Glatstein (ed.), Anthology of Holocaust Literature (New York: Atheneum, 1973).
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1996).
Yisrael Gutman, The Jews of Warsaw, 1939-43. Ghetto, Underground, Revolt. (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1982).
Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews (New Haven: Yale University Press,
2003).
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Radu Ioanid, The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2000).
Louis de Jong, The Netherlands and Nazi Germany (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University
Press, 1990).
Chaim Kaplan, C. The Scroll of Agony. The Warsaw Diary of Chaim Kaplan (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1999).
Ernst Klee et.al. (eds.), The Good Old Days: the Holocaust as seen by its Perpetrators and Bystanders (New York: the Free Press, 1991).
Ian Kershaw, Hitler, the Germans and the Final Solution (New Haven: Yale University Press,
2008).
Kramer, T. D. From Emancipation to Catastrophe: the Rise and Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry
(Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000).
Herman Langbein, Against all Hope: Resistance in the Nazi Concentration Camps (New York:
Paragon, 1994).
Lawrence Langer, Admitting the Holocaust (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
Primo Levi, If This is a Man (New York: Orion, 1959
Abraham Lewin, A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto (Oxford: Blackwell: 1988).
Michael R. Marrus, The Holocaust in History (London: Penguin 1989)..
Michael Marrus and Robert Paxton. “The Nazis and the Jews in Occupied Western Europe
1940-1944.” Journal of Modern History, 54 (1982): 687-714.
Bob Moore, Victims and Survivors: The Nazi Persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 (London: Arnold, 1997).
Benno Müller-Hill, Murderous Science: Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies,
and Others, Germany 1933-1945. Translated by G. Fraser. (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1988).
Guenter Lewy, The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies Oxford (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2000).
Calel Perechodnik, Am I a Murderer? Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman (Oxford:
0Westview Press, 1996).
Jacob Presser, Ashes in the Wind: The Destruction of Dutch Jewry (London, Souvenir Press,
1968).
Richard Rhodes, Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002).
Jacob Rosenberg, East of Time (N.S.W.: Brandl and Schlesinger, 2005).
Karl A. Schleunes, The Twisted Road to Auschwitz: Nazi Policy Toward German Jews 1933-1939 (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1970).
Wolfgang Sofsky, The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1997).
Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Pianist : the extraordinary true story of one man's survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 (New York: Picador, 1999).
Jonathan Steinberg, All or Nothing: the Axis and the Holocaust, 1941-1943 (New York:
Routledge, 1991).
Alexander Stille, Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism (New
York: Summit Books, 1991).
Tzvetan Todorov, Facing the Extreme. Moral Life in Concentration Camps (New York:
Metropolitan Books, 1996).
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Avraham Tory, Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 1990).
Samuel Totten, William S. Parsons and Israel Charny, eds. Century of Genocide, 2d ed. (New
York: Routledge, 2004).
Isaish Trunk, Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi Occupation (New
York: Macmillan, 1972).
Paul Webster, Pétain’s Crime: The Full Story of French Collaboration in the Holocaust (London: Macmillan, 1990).
John K. Roth – Elisabeth Maxwell (eds.), Remembering for the Future: The Holocaust in the Age of Genocide (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001).
Elie Wiesel, Night (London: Penguin, 1960).
David S. Wyman (ed.), The World Reacts to the Holocaust (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1996).
Leni Yahil, The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry 1933-1945 (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1990).
Susan Zuccotti, The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews (New York: Basic Books, 1993).
Good and recent overviews on the Holocaust:Good and recent overviews on the Holocaust:Good and recent overviews on the Holocaust:Good and recent overviews on the Holocaust: David Bankier (ed.), Probing the Depths of German Antisemitism (New York and Oxford:
Berghahn Books, 2000).
Richard Bessell, Nazism and War (New York: Modern Library, 2004).
Donald Bloxham and Tony Kushner. The Holocaust: Critical Historical Approaches (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005).
Berel Lang and Simone Gigliotti (eds.), The Holocaust: A Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005).
Peter Longerich, The Unwritten Order: Hitler’s Role in the Final Solution (London: Tempus,
2001).
You should also stay abreast of current events reported in the media which bear on the You should also stay abreast of current events reported in the media which bear on the You should also stay abreast of current events reported in the media which bear on the You should also stay abreast of current events reported in the media which bear on the
issues of the course.issues of the course.issues of the course.issues of the course.
This will be of primary importance for class participation and discussion. Suggestions for
available resources are:
NewspapersNewspapersNewspapersNewspapers
The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Sydney Morning Herald; The Australian; Guardian Weekly, Jerusalem Post, Haaretz
TelevisionTelevisionTelevisionTelevision
Foreign Correspondent (ABC)
Four Corners (ABC)
World News (SBS)
Dateline (SBS)
The Cutting Edge (SBS)
Relevant documentaries (ABC/SBS)
Important websitesImportant websitesImportant websitesImportant websites
www.ushmm.org
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COURSE EVALUATION ANCOURSE EVALUATION ANCOURSE EVALUATION ANCOURSE EVALUATION AND DEVELOPMENTD DEVELOPMENTD DEVELOPMENTD DEVELOPMENT
Student evaluative feedback on this course is welcomed and is gathered periodically, using
among other means UNSW’s Course and Teaching Evaluation and Improvement (CATEI)
process.
Student feedback is taken seriously, and continual improvements are made to the course
based in part on such feedback. Significant changes to the course will be communicated to
subsequent cohorts of students taking the course.
ASSESSMENTASSESSMENTASSESSMENTASSESSMENT
Assessment is based on one essay, in-class work/participation, and the in-class test on 25
January.
In-class work and presentation are meant to stress the student’s preparation of daily reading
assignments and to develop their comfort and skill at presenting thoughts in a logical manner
in front of their peers. The final in-class test is meant to show the student’s overall command
of the material and their ability to synthetise that material in assessing the larger themes of
the course.
Assessment Assessment Assessment Assessment
tasktasktasktask
LengthLengthLengthLength WeightWeightWeightWeight Learning Learning Learning Learning
outcomes outcomes outcomes outcomes
assessedassessedassessedassessed
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attributes attributes attributes attributes
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Due dateDue dateDue dateDue date
Tutorial
presentation
5-10 minutes 10 % In tutorials
Class
participation
10 % In tutorials
Essay 2,500 words 40 % 21 January
2013, 4pm
Exam 2 hours 40 % 25 January
2013, 10-
12pm
Essay questionsEssay questionsEssay questionsEssay questions (select one)(select one)(select one)(select one)::::
1) What was the role played by the Jewish Councils in Jewish communities during the
war?
2) How did the Final Solution of the Jewish question develop in individual European
countries? (select one country and discuss specificities)
3) What was the role played by the Nazi anti-Jewish propaganda in the ‘Final Solution’?
4) The Holocaust was a unique event in human history. Discuss arguments in support and
against this statement.
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5) Was there a genocide or several genocides committed by the Nazis during the war?
Discuss.
6) To what extent was the Holocaust determined by those who were not directly involved
(bystanders)?
7) What do you understand as Jewish resistance to the Holocaust?
8) What are the problems concerning the Holocaust representation in film? (Select one or
more films and discuss).
9) What can we learn from Allied responses to the Holocaust?
10) You can also choose your own essay question, but you have to submit it to Jan for
approval.
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at the School of Humanities, outside the front counter located at 353, Morven
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