Teaching the Holocaust: The Enduring Impact of Literature, Diaries, & Art in Holocaust History

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In this course, participants will examine several ghettos in which literature, diaries, and art emerged as a means to define, record, and examine daily life as it unfolded for Jews displaced from their homes by Nazi ideological laws. Participants will examine the ghettos of Lodz, Warsaw, Terezin/Theresienstadt, Vilna, and Kovno, learning about daily life, social structure, cultural resistance, spiritual resistance, and the contrast between the suffering of Jews forced into these conditions with the cultural legacy many sought to create while facing starvation, loss, and death daily.