Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
The Holocaust: an Introduction - Part 1
Tel Aviv University and Yad Vashem
This course explored the history of the Holocaust, and focused on the time period between the Nazi rise to power and the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, while providing the appropriate historical context. Among the issues that were discussed are different types of anti-Semitism, Nazi ideology, the Nazi party and state, Jewish and non-Jewish life in Nazi Germany, World War II, Ghettos. Learners were also introduced to the historian’s work, and to various documentations and historical sources.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Havi Dreifuss
Professor, Historian of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe
Tel Aviv University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Discuss the Holocaust within the context of Jewish and non-Jewish life in Europe before and during World War II
- Assess historical documents and their various uses with a critical eye, including art and visual documentation.
- Explore the way historians collect, evaluate and shape historical sources into historical narratives and facts.
- Identify one’s responsibility in a world full of knowledge that is being modified and mediated, and the importance of critical thinking.
- Describe the conscious and unconscious effects a totalitarian regime has on the individual.
- Identify anti-Semitism and its different appearances.
- Summarize the transformation of the Weimar Republic into Nazi Germany.
- Investigate how Nazi ideology shaped different occupation patterns in East and West Europe, and the way these occupations influenced the implementation of steps taken against Jews.
- Discuss various Jewish leaderships, and the complexities that stood before them.
- Assess the great variety of ghettos established in East Europe, and the different patterns of segregation in Western Europe.
Syllabus
- The shift from traditional hatred of the Jews to Anti-Semitism being part of an ideology: Nazi ideology and the Jews
- The transformation of the German state from a republic to a Totalitarian regime, and later to a Nazi State.
- The lives of Jews and non-Jews in Nazi Germany.
- The world and the Jews in WWII: the Holocaust as part of WWII.
- Different Nazi occupation policies and patterns.
- Nazi ideology as an important factor in shaping the different Jewish and non-Jewish experiences in Eastern and Western Europe.
- The abyss of isolation: Jewish life in the face of shame, segregation and ghettos – the perspective of the individual.
- The variety of different ghettos established in Eastern Europe; The diversity if Jewish Leadership, and more.
Issued on 3rd March 2017
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