Class topics

Class 1. Tuesday August 25 Introduction

Class 2. Thursday, August 27 Definitions

Class 3. Tuesday, September 1 Interwar period

Class 4. Thursday, September 3 Policies and propaganda

Class 5. Tuesday, September 8 Propaganda: Mein Kampf

Class 6. Thursday, September 10 Propaganda: Triumph of the Will

No class Tuesday, September 15 Rosh Hashanah

Class 7. Thursday, September 17 Life in the Third Reich

Class 8. Tuesday, September 22 The final solution

Class 9. Thursday, September 24 Resistance and passivity

Class 10. Tuesday, September 29 Jewish Councils and Jewish policemen

Class 11. Thursday, October 1 The Warsaw Ghetto

Class 12. Tuesday, October 6 Bystanders and witnesses

Class 13. Thursday, October 8 Neighbors and perpetrators

Class 14. Tuesday, October 13 Survivor’s memoir: Night

Class 15. Thursday, October 15 Holocaust survivor guest speaker: Nathan Kranowski

Class 16. Tuesday, October 20 Images and names

Class 17. Thursday, October 22 Eichmann on trial

Class 18. Tuesday, October 27 Preserving sites
Guest speaker via Skype: Yael Friedman, Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

Class 19. Thursday, October 29 Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day

Class 20. Tuesday, November 3 Televising the Holocaust

Class 21. Thursday, November 5 American museums

Friday, November 6 All-day field trip to Virginia Holocaust Museum, Richmond

Class 22. Tuesday, November 10 Anne Frank's diary

Class 23. Thursday, November 12 Young adult literature

No class Tuesday, November 17 and Thursday, November 19

Saturday, November 21–Sunday, November 29 Thanksgiving Holiday

Class 24. Tuesday, December 1 Graphic novels: Maus

Class 25. Thursday, December 3 Peer review

Class 26. Tuesday, December 8 Alternative responses