HSTR 450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nuremberg Laws, Hanukkah, Anne Frank
13 Sep 2016
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Oyneg shabes-ringelblum archive buried in warsaw ghetto google this. E. g. ghettos, deportation trains, mass shootings by the ss, hiding places (anne frank) Also important to study the resilience and the resistance of it"s victims: e. g. Jews in hiding persisting in baking matzos in poland, 1943: e. g. Celebrating chanukah in a transit camp in the netherlands, 1943. Jewish history extends far before the holocaust killed not only people but a culture and way of life: *also not the beginning of the persecution of the jews* The story of the perpetrators is also more complex than simple, general evil. 19th century anti-semitism changed from a religious difference to a racial otherness conversion wasn"t possible because jewish people were fundamentally a different race. Someone had to be blamed for the loss of the war. Jewish people, businesses, etc. had to be labeled (creation of targets for larger- scale persecution?) Media played a large part in spreading anti-semitism: e. g. films with jewish villains.
