(in Polish) The Holocaust 2900-MK1-THLK-KL

This lecture introduces students to the origins, course, and consequences of the Holocaust. The events that took place in Poland and the fate of the Polish Jews is in particular focus of this course. Topics discussed: Hitler’s rise to power, key concepts of the Nazi ideology, the concepts of race and Lebensraum, groups particularly persecuted by the Nazis (the homosexuals, the disabled, the Communists, Roma and Sinti, and Jews), persecution of Jews in the Third Reich, Austria, and the Protectorate, persecution of Jews in the annexed territories and the Generalgouvernement, economic exploitation, ghettos, Aktion Reinhardt, Judenjagd, Jewish responses toward persecution, local non-Jewish populations’ attitudes (persecution and assistance), the survivors’ community in the first postwar years.