Seminar schedule The Holocaust: An Integrative History hi31Z

Film: Grey Zone
14. February 2: Perpetrators and guards

Sereny, Into that Darkness: An Examination of Conscience (New York: Vintage Books, 1983), selection

Presentation: Elissa Mailänder, book
15. February 9: Resistance

Hermann Langbein, People in Auschwitz (Chapel Hill: University of North Caroline Press & USHMM, 2003): ch. Resistance (240-272).

Lenore Weitzman, Women of Courage: The Kashariyot (Couriers) in the Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust, in Lessons and Legacies VI, ed. Jeffry Diefendorf (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1996): 112-154.
Presentation: Gad Beck, An Underground life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin, trans. Allison Brown (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999).

OR

Nechama Tec, Defiance: The Bielski Partisans (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993).

16. February 16: no class, reading week
17. February 23: Mixed marriages and people with mixed background

Beate Meyer, “The Mixed Marriage: A Guarantee of Survival or a Reflection of German Society during the Nazi Regime?” in Probing the depths of German antisemitism: German society and the persecution of the Jews, 1933-1941 ed. David Bankier (New York: Berghahn, 2000): 54-77.

Selection from Klemperer diaries.

Ingeborg Hecht, Invisible Walls: A German Family Under the Nuremberg Walls, trans. J. Maxwell Brownjohn (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985), selection.

Presentation: Nathan Stoltzfus, Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Berlin (New York: Norton, 1996).
18. March 2: Persecution of homosexuals

Geoffrey J. Giles, “‘The Most Unkindest Cut of All’: Castration, Homosexuality, and Nazi Justice.” Journal of Contemporary History 27, no. 1 (1992): 41-61.

Wolfgang Röll, “Homosexual Inmates in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp.” Journal of Homosexuality 31, no. 4, (1996): 1-28.

Wanda Półtawska, And I am afraid of my dreams, trans. Mary Craig (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1987), selection

Clips of video interviews from the University of Southern California Visual History Foundation.
Presentations:

Insa Eschebach, ed., Homophobie und Devianz (Berlin: Metropol, 2012).

19. March 9: Going into Hiding

Kaplan, ch. 8.

Marie Jalowicz Simon, Gone to the Ground (London: Clerkenwell Press, 2015).
Presentation: Richard Lutjens, Jews in Hiding in Nazi Berlin, 1941-1945 (PhD Dissertation, Northwestern University, 2012.)
20. March 16: Artistic representation: Film

Sara Horowitz, “But is it Good for the Jews? Spielberg's Schindler and the Aesthetics of Atrocity,” in Spielberg's Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on Schindler's List ed. Yosefa Loshitsky (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997): 119-139.

Village Voice review of the film
Presentation: Lassner, Mintz

(last meeting of the spring term)

21. April 26: Artistic representation: Literature

Art Spiegelmann, Maus, volume one

Marianne Hirsch, “The Generation of Postmemory,” Poetics Today 29:1 (Spring 2008).

(or alternative)

22. May 3: Revision session