PS 480 - Seminar: Poland and the Holocaust

(3.00 cr.)

While Nazi Germany initiated the Holocaust, Poland was the territory on which it was carried out. Almost half of the Jews killed in the Holocaust were Polish. This seminar focuses on the relationships between Catholic and Jewish citizens of Poland during the Nazi occupation and terror. Recent scholarship, memoirs, and films are used to understand the politics of the Holocaust in Poland, both in the past and today. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. GT