INDS 231: THE HOLOCAUST



INDS 231: THE HOLOCAUST

Professor Miriam Dean-Otting

Religious Studies

Ascension 106

PBX 5655

Email: deanotting@kenyon.edu

Office Hours: WF 10-12, Tues 2:45-3:45

Professor Eliza Ablovatski

History

Seitz House 5

PBX 5892

Email: ablovatskie@kenyon.edu

Office Hours: M 2:30-4:30pm; TR 3:00-4:30pm

Course INFO

Required Books

• Doris Bergen, War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust

• Jan Gross, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland

• Marion Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany

• Betty Lauer, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Incredible True Story of a German-Jewish Teenager’s Struggle to Survive in Nazi-Occupied Poland

• Martin Lemelman, Mendel’s Daughter: A Memoir

• Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

Professionalism: This is a lecture/discussion class, based in part on discussion of shared readings and films in addition to class lectures. The class will therefore depend on the strength of your participation. All students are expected to attend class, attend all relevant outside events, and be active participants in discussions. Missing 2 classes or more for any reason will negatively affect your grade. Students are expected to learn and follow the norms of academic scholarship, as well as the Kenyon Honor Code. They should show respect to classmates and the professors, turn in all work on time, address problems as they arise, locate the readings ahead of class or alert the library staff or professors if they have trouble finding them, and view all required films. Students should bring all assigned reading (print out a copy of online sources) with them to class to aid in discussion. All graded work must be handed in hard copy (stapled) to your group’s professor. No emailed attachments will be graded.

Course Requirements: In addition to the professionalism described above, students will hand in two papers, a take-home midterm exam, and present research done on a group project. Exact descriptions of each of these assignments will be handed out in class. Due dates are noted below in the schedule of courses.

Grading: Professionalism 15%

First Paper (4 pages) 15%

Second Paper (8 pages) 25%

Group Presentation 20%

Take-Home Exam 25%

Honor Code and Lateness Policy: Please read the Kenyon College policy “Academic Honesty and Questions of Plagiarism” in the Course of Study carefully. It is expected that all work that you turn in for this course is your own and that you will follow the general guidelines of academic honesty, as well as the norms of the historical profession for citation, when writing for this class. Any questionable work or cases of possible infractions of the Honor Code will be turned over to the Academic Infractions Board. In order to be fair to all students, late work will be marked down for each day that it is late and will not be accepted after one week. Missing a scheduled presentation will mean a grade of zero.

Note: If you have a disability and therefore may need some sort of accommodation(s) in order to fully participate in this class, please let us know. In addition, you will need to contact Erin Salva, Coordinator of Disability Services (x5145). Ms. Salva has the authority and expertise to decide what accommodations are appropriate and necessary for you.

Schedule of Classes***:

***NOTE ABOUT CLASSROOMS: on all days marked as “Lecture,” “Film,” or “Presentation,”all students (both sections) meet together in Bemis Room (Peirce 201); on days marked “Discussion” meet separately in sections

Tuesday, January 15: Film: “Night and Fog” (Alain Resnais, 1955)

Thursday, January 17: Lecture Anti-Semitism (Prof. Maguire)

• Bergen: preface, 1-80

Tuesday, January 22: Lecture Jewish Life in Europe (Dean-Otting)

• Kaplan: Introduction, Chapters 1 and 2

• Excerpt from film, “Image Before my Eyes” (Joshua Waletzky, 1981)

Thursday, January 24: Discussion (in separate sections)

• Bergen: pp. 1-80

• Kaplan: Chapters 1-4

Tuesday, January 29 Lecture Kristallnacht and German Jewish Emigration (Dean-Otting)

• Bergen: Chapter 4

Thursday, January 31: Discussion 1938-1939/1940 (focus on Germany)

• Kaplan: Chapters 5-8

• Lauer: Chapters 1-2

Tuesday, February 5: Lecture War Expands (Ablovatski)

• Bergen: p. 131-144 (end at the “German Assault on Soviet Union”)

Thursday, February 7: Film “The Warsaw Ghetto”

• Paper Topics handed out for first paper

• Excerpt from Ringelblum, Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto, pp. 59-93 (available on Eres, password=shoah)

Tuesday, February 12 Lecture Łodz Ghetto (Prof. Fenigstein)

• Lauer: Chapters 3-4

Thursday, February 14: Discussion Occupation and Hiding

• Lauer: Chapters 5-7

Monday, February 18: First Paper Due (in hard copy to section professor by 4pm)

Tuesday, February 19: Lecture War and Genocide Escalate/Czernowitz (Ablovatski)

• Browning: Ordinary Men Chapter 3 – list of murders and document (Handout)

• Bergen: pp. 145-228

Thursday, February 21: Discussion

• Christopher Browning, “One day in Józefów: Initiation to Mass Murder,” in Lawrence Langer, ed., Art From the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology (Eres)

Tuesday February 26: Film “Wannsee Conference” (1984)

• Read documents at website of House of the Wannsee Conference:

Thursday, February 28: Discussion

• Franciszek Piper, “Gas Chambers and Crematoria,” in Eric Katz, ed., Death by Design: Science, Technology, and Engineering in Nazi Germany (Eres)

SPRING BREAK – no classes, read Gross and Lemelman

Tuesday, March 18: Discussion

• Jan Gross, Neighbors

Thursday, March 20: Discussion

• Martin Lemelman, Mendel’s Daughter

Tuesday, March 25: Film “Paragraph 175” (Epstein and Friedman, 2002)

Thursday, March 27: Discussion of film and question of “other victims”

• Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (chapters 1-7)

Tuesday, April 1 Lecture and View: “Auschwitz Album” and “SS Album”

• Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (chapters 8 and 9)

• Tadeusz Borowski, “The People Who Walked On,” in This Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen (Eres)

• Take-Home Exam handed out in class (due April 7)

Thursday, April 3 Discussion of Levi

• Finish Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (chapters 10-17 and interview)

Monday, April 7: Take-Home Exam due by 4pm (hard copy to section leader)

Tuesday, April 8: Lecture The American Response (Prof. Coulibaly)

Thursday, April 10: Discussion Postwar-Liberation and Looking for Family

• Lauer: chapters 14-end (pp. 403-550)

Tuesday, April 15: Lecture Holocaust and State Socialism (Ablovatski)

• James E. Young: excerpt (Eres)

• Babi Yar (Shostakovich, Yevtushenko)

• View: Images of memorials

Thursday, April 17: Lecture “Stolperstein Memorials” (Dean-Otting)

• Elie Wiesel, "A Plea for the Dead," in Lawrence Langer, ed., Art From the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology (Eres)

Lecture: Dr. Edna Friedberg, USHMM – time and date TBA

Tuesday, April 22: Presentations

Thursday, April 24: Presentations

Tuesday, April 29: Presentations

Thursday, May 1: Presentations

Exams: Final papers due no later than TUESDAY, MAY 6 at 4pm.

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