Day 2: Tues, June 6

Tuesday, June 6, Tuesday
Teaching the Holocaust: Analog and Digital Questions

10:00-11:30     [Lecture + Discussion] Introduction to the Holocaust (Part I): An Event at Scale
Discussion Reading: Omar Bartov

11:30 – 12:00  Intro to USHMM resources: Library and Archives

12:00-1:00       Lunch

1:00-1:45         [Lecture + Discussion] Introduction to the Holocaust (Part II): An Event in Space and Time
Discussion Reading: Giordano, Knowles, and Cole 

1:45 – 3:00      [Group Activity] Timeline Analysis & Data Experiment

3:00-3:15         Break

3:15-4:00         Intro to USHMM Digital Resources: ITS

4:00-5:00         [Group Activity] Create an assignment with ITS materials

Readings:

  • Finish Bergen, War and Genocide;
  • Omer Bartov, “Genocide and the Holocaust: Arguments over History and Politics,” in Hilary Earl and Karl A. Schleunes, eds., Expanding Perspectives on the Holocaust in a Changing World, Lessons and Legacies XI (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2014), 5-28
  • Alberto Giordano, Anne Kelly Knowles, and Tim Cole, “Geographies of the Holocaust,” in Knowles, Cole and Giordano, eds., 1-17.