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18 hours

Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

Schedule type

Self paced

Difficulty level

Intermediate

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  • The Holocaust - what do we know about it and what more can we learn? This course provides a broad and in-depth look at central topics relating to the history of the Holocaust. It examines the events and processes that took place during these earth-shattering years through new and thought-provoking perspectives.

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Curriculum

Nazi Germany: 1933-1939

Course Trailer

European Jewry During the Interwar Years

The Jewish Community of Würzburg During the Interwar Period

The Weimar Republic: Politics, Society and Culture

Key Historical Concept: The Weimar Republic

The Rise to Power and Consolidation of the Nazi Party

Holocaust Survivor Ruth Falk Recalls Her Immigration from Nazi Germany

1933-1937: The Anti-Jewish Policies of the Nazi Regime

The Jews of Würzburg During the Early Days of Nazi Rule

German Jewry under the Nazi Regime

Jewish Life under the Nazi Regime

The Crucial Year: From 1938 until the Outbreak of the War

Kristallnacht in Würzburg

Welcome to the Course

Course Structure, Methodology and Discussion Guidelines

Paul von Hindenburg

The National Socialist Party

The Nuremberg Laws

Klemperer, Victor "I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941"

Leo Baeck

Anschluss

Selected Bibliography

The Outbreak of World War II and Anti-Jewish Policies, 1939-1941

Regime Patterns in the Nazi Occupied Countries

Anti-Jewish Policies in Different European Countries and Territorial Solutions to the "Jewish Problem"

Key Historical Concept: The Jewish Badge

The Development of Anti-Jewish "Control Mechanisms"

The Development and Establishment of Ghettos

Daily Life in the Lodz Ghetto

Daily Life in the Ghettos

Jewish Life in the Ghettos

Emanuel Ringelblum and the "Oyneg Shabes" Secret Archives in the Warsaw Ghetto

Mordechai Anielewicz: A Life

Daily Life in the Non-Ghettoized Areas

Jews in France under the German Occupation

The Molotov?Ribbentrop Pact

The Occupation of Poland

Judenrat (Jewish Council)

Ghetto

Refugees

Selected Bibliography

The Formulation and Implementation of the "Final Solution", 1941-1945

Intentionalists and Functionalists

Operation Barbarossa ? the Beginning of the Systematic Mass Murder

Holocaust Survivor Max Solway Describes Escaping a Killing Pit

Expanding the Murder to Encompass All Jews under Nazi Control

Key Historical Concept: The Wannsee Conference

The Extermination Camps

Holocaust Survivors, Twin Sisters, Describe Arriving at Auschwitz

Key Historical Concept: The Camps

The Camp Prisoner

Surviving the Holocaust: The Story of Hanna Bar Yesha

Primo Levi

The "Last Jews"

Holocaust Survivor Testimonies: The Life of a Partisan

Abba Kovner: Underground and Partisan Commander in the Vilna Area

A Page from the Diary of Yitzhak Rudzewski of the Vilna Ghetto

Einsatzgruppen

Extermination Camps

Selected Bibliography

The Image of "the Jew" in Nazi Antisemitism - Visuals and Typology

Who Are the Jews and What Is Antisemitism?

Nature of Antisemitism

Holocaust Survivor Discusses Jewish-Polish Relations in Chelm Before WWII

Traditional Antisemitism: Theological Background

Traditional Antisemitism: The Middle Ages

Modern Antisemitism

Racial Antisemitism

Nazi Ideology

Ecclesia and Synagoga

The Blood Libel

An Example of Anti-Jewish Restrictions

The Expulsion of Jews from England 1290

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Racism

Excerpts from Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf"

Selected Bibliography

Key Stages in the History of World War II and The Deportations

The Nazi Expansionist Policy and the First Deportations

The Outbreak of World War II and Deportations in Poland

The First Week of German Occupation of Liepaja

The Railway System and Its Role in the Implementation of the "Final Solution"

Holocaust Survivor Testimonies on the Deportations

Summer-Autumn 1941

The Deportation of Würzburg Jews to the East

1942-1944: Deportations - A Pan-European Phenomenon

A Deportation from Greece to Auschwitz

The End of World War II

Liberators and Survivors: The First Moments

Holocaust Survivor Testimonies: The Anguish of Liberation

The Four Year Plan

From the Writings of Emanuel Ringelblum

Selected Bibliography

The World After the Holocaust: Trauma, Memory and Culture

The World Today

What Happened to the Concepts of Good and Bad?

Boundaries in the Representation of the Holocaust

Teaching the Holocaust through Art: An Introduction

Krakow Jewry Today

The Limits of Holocaust Representation \ Daniel Feldman

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