Jewish Women of the Holocaust

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This course will examine how Jewish women handled the hardships inflicted upon them by the rise of Nazism, during the Holocaust, and after the war ended. We will examine the choices they made, how those choices affected them, why they made the decisions they did, and how their determination sustained them. This will be done through a combination of books, film, and art. Finally, we will explore the rationale behind women’s choices and how they differed from the choices men made during the same period. Prerequisite: ENGL 1312 with a grade of C or better.