HIS 228: History of the Holocaust

Oakton Community College
Department of Historical and Policy Studies

Professor W. A. Sarti
Professor of History

Email Prof. Sarti at wsarti@oakton.edu

Class Twitter Page

http://twitter.com/HolocaustClass (contact professor for login and password)

A. Backgrounds to genocide and Holocaust

The Holocaust Project “Questions About the Holocaust” http://www.humanitas-international.org/holocaust/questns.htm

Gendercide Watch, “The Jewish Holocaust” http://www.gendercide.org/case_jews.html

Martin Frost, “The Holocaust” http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/holocaust.html

University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, “Propaganda” http://www.chgs.umn.edu/educational/brokenThreads/propaganda.html

B. Genocide and Holocaust as an outgrowth of the international, political, social, economic, and ideological crises of the twentieth century.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Victims of the Nazi Era” http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007457

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “The Destruction of European Jewry” www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators/

The Jewish Holocaust www.genocidetext.net/gaci_holocaust.pdf

The Montreal Jewish Community and the Holocaust www.schaler.net/Beer.pdf

C. Pre-war Nazi Germany: The historical setting for the Holocaust.

Modern American Poetry http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/holocaust/holocaust.htm

Yad Vashem, “Everyday Anti-Semitism in Pre-War Nazi Germany” http://www.yadvashem.org

The BBC, Nora Waln’s View of Pre-War Germany, (film clip) http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/nora-walns-view-of-pre-war-germany/3256.html

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Persecution of Roma (Gypsies) in Pre-War Germany” http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005482

The Atlantic, “World War II – Before the War” http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/learning/timeline/

PBS, “Auschwitz, Inside The Nazi State Pre-War Timeline” http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/learning/timeline/

D. Who was Adolf Hitler? Who were the Nazis? Rise of Nazi Germany. Nazi institutions of power and Nazi political structures.

You Tube: Who Was Hitler www.youtube.com/watch?v=b88pkEhLoGA

First World War.com “Who Was Adolf Hitler?” www.firstworldwar.com/bio/hitler.htm

Hitler and Nazis www.auschwitz.dk/bullseye/new_page_3.htm

Thirty-six Questions About the Holocaust www.motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=394663

The Jewish Virtual Library “The Third Reich Power Structure” www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/flowchart.html

Colby College: “The Functioning of the Nazi Regime: State and Society” www.colby.edu/personal/rmscheck/GermanyE5.htm

E. The road to the Holocaust: from persecution to mass murder, 1933-1941.

The BBC, Nora Waln’s View of Pre-War Germany, (film clip) http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/nora-walns-view-of-pre-war-germany/3256.html

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Persecution of Roma (Gypsies) in Pre-War Germany” http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005482

Holocaust Forgotten, “Hitler’s First Target for Annihilation During The Holocaust” http://www.holocaustforgotten.com/poland.htm

F. The Final Solution to the Jewish question: how and why? 1941-1945.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum “The Final Solution – Overview” http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005151

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum “The Final Solution” http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007704

Middle Tennessee State University “The Final Solution” http://frank.mtsu.edu/~baustin/finlsol.html

Remember.Org “The Final Solution” http://remember.org/guide/Facts.root.final.html

Think Quest Library: The Final Solution www.library.thinkquest.org/trio/TTQ03068/finalsolution.html

G. Human behavior and the Holocaust: bystanders, resistance, rescuers.

Facing History and Ourselves, “Holocaust and Human Behavior” http://www.facinghistory.org/resources/hhb

Quizlet, “Human and Ethical Behavior Flashcards” http://quizlet.com/5741834/holocaust-human-behavior-ethical-citizenship-flash-cards/

Peter Zuckerman (survivor’s essay) “Why the Holocaust?” http://www.hpn.org/publications/holocaust.html

Alexander Kimel, “Holocaust Syndrome” http://kimel.net/syndrome.html

MonDak Heritage Center “Bystanders” http://www.mondakheritagecenter.org/history/schindler/bystanders.html

Alexander Kimel, “Bystanders” http://kimel.net/bystand.html

Lest We Forget “Holocaust Bystanders” http://www.holocaust-lest-we-forget.com/holocaust-bystanders/2010/03/

Holocaust Forgotten, “Holocaust Rescuers: Stories of Courage” http://www.holocaustforgotten.com/rescuers.htm

The Smithsonian Museum, “Five Rescuers of Those Threatened By the Holocaust” http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Five-Rescuers-of-Those-Threatened-by-the-Holocaust.html

Eva Fogelman, “Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust” http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/rescuers-article.html

H. Women and the Holocaust.

The United States Holocaust Museum “Women During the Holocaust” http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005176

Women and the Holocaust “A Cyberspace of Their Own” http://www.theverylongview.com/WATH/

University of North Carolina at Asheville Caroline Forsman Thesis on Women in Ravensbrück www.toto.lib.unca.edu/sr_papers/history_sr/srhistory

The Experiences of Women During the Holocaust www.jhcwc.org/morrissette2004.pdf

Women and the Holocaust: Personal Reflections www.theverylongview.com/WATH/essays/golden.htm

The United States Holocaust Museum “Women During the Holocaust – Personal History” http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_oi.php?ModuleId=10005176&MediaId=1118

The United Nations, “Women and the Holocaust – Courage and Compassion” www.un.org/.../holocaustremembrance/

I. Other approaches: studying the Holocaust in art, music, and literature. Holocaust in film.

Modern American Poetry “A Holocaust Photo Essay” http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/holocaust/photoessay.htm

I Survived the Twentieth Century Holocaust “A Study of Art and Literature” http://isurvived.org/TOC-VI.html

Holocaust Art http://art.holocaust-education.net/

Northwestern University “Last Expression” http://lastexpression.northwestern.edu/

Holocaust Art and Poetry http://www.datasync.com/~davidg59/holo_art.html

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum “Steven Spielberg’s Video Archive” www.resources.ushmm.org/film/

Music of the Holocaust http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/arts/music.htm

Yad Vashem, “Songs of the Holocaust” www.yadvashem.org/music

J. Visual literacy and oral history: the memory and testimony of the survivor. Comparisons with memories of “ordinary Germans,” and perpetrators.

Survivor Stories http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/survivors.shtml

Yale University, Testimony Excerpts http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/excerpts/index.html

PR Log, “German World War II Survivor Reveals How She Escaped the Russians” http://www.prlog.org/11268355-german-world-war-ii-survivor-reveals-how-she-escaped-the-russians-in-the-winter-of-1945.html

PBS “Escape From Auschwitz. One Generation to Another” http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/features/escape-from-auschwitz/one-generation-to-another-reflections-from-the-child-of-holocaust-survivors/34/

K. The Holocaust: economic, historical, political, and social implications.

University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies http://www.chgs.umn.edu/educational/economic.html

Radio Free Europe “New Study Assesses Economic, Political Impact of Holocaust in Russia” http://www.rferl.org/content/New_Study_Assesses_Economic_Political_Impact_Of_Holocaust_In_Russia/2075879.html

Sandra Williams “The Impact of the Holocaust on Survivors and Their Children” http://www.sandrawilliams.org/HOLOCAUST/holocaust.html

Harvard University, “A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia” scholar.harvard.edu/jrobinson/files/holocaust_published.pdf

Oxford University Economic Journals, “Social Structure and the Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia” qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/126/2/895.full.pdf

L. The Holocaust: moral, philosophical, and theological implications.

The Jewish Virtual Library, “Moral Dilemmas Faced By Jewish Doctors During the Holocaust” www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/dilemma.html

Sigi Ziering Institute “Exploring the Religious and Ethical Implications of the Holocaust” http://www.cpo.ajula.edu/default.aspx?ID=658

The Jewish Herald-Voice “Soldiers Learn Ethics From Holocaust History” http://wwww.jhvonline.com/soldiers-learn-ethics-from-holocaust-history-p8701-9

The United States Holocaust Museum “A Changed World – The Continuing Impact of the Holocaust” www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/aftermath/

Ashley Maher “The Ethics of Holocaust Art” www.drury.edu/irconf/pdf/ashleymaher.pdf

Faith in God and Man After Auschwitz: Theological Implications www.holocaust-trc.org/fackenheim.htm

M. The fall of Nazi Germany and the end of the Holocaust.

United States Holocaust Museum, “Liberation of Nazi Camps” http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005131

The Nuremberg Trials Chronology http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/nurembergchronology.html

Yad Vashem “Death Marches” www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%206260.pdf

Eye Witness to History “Battle of Berlin” http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/berlin.htm

National Library of Australia “The Decline and Fall of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan: A Pictorial” http://www.google.com/#q=the+fall+of+nazi+germany&hl=en&prmd=ivns&ei=vClpTuXJBJSMsAL7uqmHDg&start=10&sa=N&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=67cca108e1ea2034&biw=1141&bih=456

N. Historiography, outcomes, and final analysis.

Colby College, “The Aftermath of the War” http://www.colby.edu/personal/r/rmscheck/GermanyF.html

State University of New York, Suffolk, “Effects of World War II” http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/westn/effectww2.html

University of Wisconsin “World War II: The Impact at Home” http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture21.html

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “The Consequences of World War II” www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005137

World War II.Org “World War II Was Different Than Any Other war www.worldwarii.org/

O. Holocaust denial.

Jewish Virtual Library, “Holocaust Denial” http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/denial.html

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Holocaust Denial” http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/denial/

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Holocaust Denial and Public Misinformation” http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007272

The Anti-Defamation League “Holocaust Denial” http://www.adl.org/hate-patrol/holocaust.asp

P. Post-War considerations: displaced persons and the state of Israel.

The United States Holocaust Museum “Post War Refugee Crisis and the Establishment of the State of Israel” http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005459

The Jewish Virtual Library “The Palestinian Refugees” http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/refugees.html

Employment Policy Research Network, “Displacement Women Workers After World War II” http://www.employmentpolicy.org/displacement-women-workers-after-world-war-ii-linked-mitchells-musings-5-30-11

Mount Holyoke College “The Growth of Jewish Nationalism in Displacement Camps” http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~ghost20j/classweb/ghost20j/index.html

Institute for Research of Expelled Germans http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~ghost20j/classweb/ghost20j/index.html

Teaching Websites

American University Washington College of Law http://www.wcl.american.edu/humright/center/rwanda/lesson.cfm

The Genocide Education Project http://www.genocideeducation.org/

Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies http://www.chgs.umn.edu

Tolerance and Genocide/Teaching Tolerance http://www.tolerance.org/

Updated: 19 September 2011
Created by: wsarti@oakton.edu

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