UC Santa Cruz - The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry 

1.1.1 Introductions

1.1.2 Who were the Jews?

1.1.3 Why do we study the Holocaust?

1.1.4 Poetry and perspectives

1.2.1 Western European Jewry in the 19th century

1.2.2 Jewish success and European antisemitism

1.2.3 Jews in French society

1.2.4 Roots of modern antisemitism

1.2.5 Theodor Herzl

1.3.1 Expectations of reality

1.3.2 Hier ist kein warum

1.3.3 Yiddish culture

1.3.4 On Account of a Hat

Description

Books and films

Writing assignments

Acknowledgements

1.0.1 Topics, readings, and films

1.1.5 Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car (English translation)

1.3.5 On Account of a Hat (English translation)

2.1.1 Eastern Europe in the 20th century

2.1.2 Poland, part 1

2.1.3 Poland, part 2

2.1.4 Hungary, part 1

2.1.5 Hungary, part 2

2.1.6 Fear and hatred

2.2.1 Liberal European culture

2.2.2 Night, part 1

2.2.3 Night, part 2

2.2.4 Life in the Arbeitslager

2.3.1 Jewry of the Russian Empire

2.3.2 The Russian state

2.3.3 Changing demographics

2.3.4 Pogroms in the Russian Empire and the USSR

2.3.5 Jewish identity

2.4.1 The Bildungsroman, part 1

2.4.2 The Bildungsroman, part 2

2.4.3 The Bildungsroman, part 3

2.4.4 The Bildungsroman, part 4

2.0.1 Topics, readings, and films

3.1.1 Fascism

3.1.2 Hitler and the Jews

3.1.3 Germans and the Jews

3.1.4 The rise of the Nazis

3.1.5 Nazism in German culture

3.2.1 Poetry and evil, part 1

3.2.2 Poetry and evil, part 2

3.2.3 Poetry and evil, part 3

3.2.4 Todesfugue (Death Fugue)

3.3.1 Intentionalism and functionalism

3.3.2 What do we do with the Jews?

3.3.3 Why didn't they leave?

3.3.4 The Anschluß and German pogroms

3.3.5 Passing and not passing

3.0.1 Topics, readings, and films

3.2.5 Kaddish

3.2.6 Nightsong (English translation)

3.2.7 Death Fugue (English translation)

3.2.8 Todesfuge (German)

3.2.9 Memento Mori (English translation)

3.2.10 Memento Mori (Yiddish)

4.1.1 Questions for the Jews

4.1.2 Direct acts of violence

4.1.3 Fight for what?

4.1.4 Eroticization of violence

4.1.5 Resistance and agency

4.2.1 Beginnings of war

4.2.2 German war aims

4.2.3 Ghettoes

4.2.4 Jewish leadership

4.2.5 What did the neighbors say?

4.3.1 Language of trauma

4.3.2 Banality of evil

4.3.3 Schindler's List, part 1

4.3.4 Schindler's List, part 2

4.3.5 Guilt and responsibility

4.0.1 Topics, readings, and films

5.1.1 Wartime lunacy

5.1.2 Einsatzgruppen, part 1

5.1.3 Einsatzgruppen, part 2

5.1.4 Pogroms in the east

5.1.5 Forms of resistance

5.2.1 Witness to trauma, part 1

5.2.2 Witness to trauma, part 2

5.2.3 Witness to trauma, part 3

5.2.4 Witness to trauma, part 4

5.3.1 Dora Sorell, part 1

5.3.2 Dora Sorell, part 2

5.3.3 Dora Sorell, part 3

5.3.4 Dora Sorell, part 4

5.3.5 Dora Sorell, part 5

5.3.6 Dora Sorell, part 6

5.3.7 Dora Sorell, part 7

5.0.1 Topics, readings, and films

6.1.1 The heart of the matter

6.1.2 From labor to extermination

6.1.3 Be??ec, Sobibór and Treblinka

6.1.4 The task of killing

6.1.5 Auschwitz

6.1.6 Who knew about the murders?

6.2.1 This Way for the Gas, part 1

6.2.2 This Way for the Gas, part 2

6.2.3 This Way for the Gas, part 3

6.2.4 This Way for the Gas, part 4

6.2.5 Memorials and understanding

6.0.1 Topics, readings, and films

7.1.1 The Wansee Conference

7.1.2 Denmark and Norway

7.1.3 Belgium and Holland

7.1.4 France and Italy

7.1.5 Nazi looting

7.2.1 Fatelessness, part 1

7.2.2 Fatelessness, part 2

7.2.3 Fatelessness, part 3

7.2.4 Fatelessness, part 4

7.2.5 Fatelessness, part 5

7.3.1 Deportation and extermination

7.3.2 Antisemitic laws

7.3.3 Germany and Hungary

7.3.4 Separate peace

7.3.5 Ambiguities

7.4.1 A Scrap of Time, part 1

7.4.2 A Scrap of Time, part 2

7.4.3 A Scrap of Time, part 3

7.4.4 A Scrap of Time, part 4

7.4.5 A Scrap of Time, part 5

7.0.1 Topics, readings, and films

7.2.6 Never Say/Partisan Song (English translation)

7.2.7 Zog Nit Keyn Mol/Partizaner Lid (Yiddish)

8.1.1 Romania, part 1

8.1.2 Romania, part 2

8.1.3 Romania, part 3

8.1.4 Romania, part 4

8.1.5 A gigantic biological and social experiment

8.2.1 The perpetrators

8.2.2 Other types of madness

8.2.3 The surrounding population

8.2.4 The outside world

8.2.5 Isolation

8.2.6 Last testament

8.0.1 Topics, readings, and films

8.2.7 My Political Testament