The Holocaust (lecture) 2900-JSL-ZAGWPR-OG

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.
This course is funded by the Claims Conference University Partnership Program in Holocaust Studies.

Type of course

general courses

Course coordinators

Maria Antosik-Piela
Łukasz Krzyżanowski

Learning outcomes

Course participants become familiar the history of the Holocaust.

Assessment criteria

Final test

Bibliography

Students acquire knowledge during the lectures - no obligatory reading required.

Notes

Term 2024Z:

Willingness to participate in the course and to learn.

Additional information

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