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Chosen Issues in Holocaust History
  • Level Professional
  • Duration 19 hours
  • Course by Yad Vashem
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The Holocaust - what do we know about it and what more can we learn? This course provides a broad and in-depth look at central topics relating to the history of the Holocaust. It examines the events and processes that took place during these earth-shattering years through new and thought-provoking perspectives.

Modules

Introduction: European Jewry During the Interwar Years

    • 3 Videos
    • 2 Readings
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3 Videos

  • Course Trailer
  • European Jewry During the Interwar Years
  • The Jewish Community of Würzburg During the Interwar Period

2 Readings

  • Welcome to the Course
  • Course Structure, Methodology and Discussion Guidelines

The Weimar Republic: Politics, Society and Culture

    • 2 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • The Weimar Republic: Politics, Society, and Culture

2 Videos

  • The Weimar Republic: Politics, Society and Culture
  • Key Historical Concept: The Weimar Republic

1 Readings

  • Paul von Hindenburg

The Rise to Power and Consolidation of the Nazi Party

    • 2 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • A Nazi Party Rally

2 Videos

  • The Rise to Power and Consolidation of the Nazi Party
  • Holocaust Survivor Ruth Falk Recalls Her Immigration from Nazi Germany

1 Readings

  • The National Socialist Party

1933-1937: The Anti-Jewish Policies of the Nazi Regime

    • 2 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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2 Videos

  • 1933-1937: The Anti-Jewish Policies of the Nazi Regime
  • The Jews of Würzburg During the Early Days of Nazi Rule

1 Readings

  • The Nuremberg Laws

German Jewry under the Nazi Regime

    • 2 Videos
    • 2 Readings
    • 2 Discussion
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2 Discussions

  • Jewish Life under the Nazi Regime
  • Victor Klemperer's Diary Excerpt

2 Videos

  • German Jewry under the Nazi Regime
  • Jewish Life under the Nazi Regime

2 Readings

  • Klemperer, Victor "I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941"
  • Leo Baeck

The Crucial Year: Anti-Jewish Policy and the Jewish Reaction to it, from 1938 until the Outbreak of the War

    • 2 Videos
    • 2 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • Felix Nussbaum's "The Refugee"

2 Videos

  • The Crucial Year: From 1938 until the Outbreak of the War
  • Kristallnacht in Würzburg

2 Readings

  • Anschluss
  • Selected Bibliography

Regime Patterns in the Occupied Countries

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • From the Speech by Adolf Hitler, January 30, 1939

1 Videos

  • Regime Patterns in the Nazi Occupied Countries

1 Readings

  • The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

Anti-Jewish Policies in Different European Countries and Territorial Solutions to the "Jewish Problem"

    • 2 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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2 Videos

  • Anti-Jewish Policies in Different European Countries and Territorial Solutions to the "Jewish Problem"
  • Key Historical Concept: The Jewish Badge

1 Readings

  • The Occupation of Poland

The Development of Anti-Jewish "Control Mechanisms"

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • The Jewish Councils

1 Videos

  • The Development of Anti-Jewish "Control Mechanisms"

1 Readings

  • Judenrat (Jewish Council)

The Development and Establishment of Ghettos

    • 2 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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2 Videos

  • The Development and Establishment of Ghettos
  • Daily Life in the Lodz Ghetto

1 Readings

  • Ghetto

Daily Life in the Ghettos

    • 4 Videos
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • Daily Life in the Ghettos

4 Videos

  • Daily Life in the Ghettos
  • Jewish Life in the Ghettos
  • Emanuel Ringelblum and the "Oyneg Shabes" Secret Archives in the Warsaw Ghetto
  • Mordechai Anielewicz: A Life

Daily Life in the Non-Ghettoized Areas

    • 2 Videos
    • 2 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • The Jewish Unions

2 Videos

  • Daily Life in the Non-Ghettoized Areas
  • Jews in France under the German Occupation

2 Readings

  • Refugees
  • Selected Bibliography

Intentionalists and Functionalists

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • Intentionalists and Functionalists

1 Videos

  • Intentionalists and Functionalists

Operation Barbarossa – the Beginning of the Systematic Mass Murder

    • 2 Videos
    • 2 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • Operation Barbarossa

2 Videos

  • Operation Barbarossa – the Beginning of the Systematic Mass Murder
  • Holocaust Survivor Max Solway Describes Escaping a Killing Pit

2 Readings

  • A Page from the Diary of Yitzhak Rudzewski of the Vilna Ghetto
  • Einsatzgruppen

Expanding the Murder to Encompass All Jews under Nazi Control

    • 2 Videos
    • 3 Discussion
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3 Discussions

  • The Murder of the Jews
  • The Wannsee Conference
  • The Involvement of Various Elements in the Murder of the Jews

2 Videos

  • Expanding the Murder to Encompass All Jews under Nazi Control
  • Key Historical Concept: The Wannsee Conference

The Extermination Camps

    • 3 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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3 Videos

  • The Extermination Camps
  • Holocaust Survivors, Twin Sisters, Describe Arriving at Auschwitz
  • Key Historical Concept: The Camps

1 Readings

  • Extermination Camps

The Camp Prisoner

    • 3 Videos
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • Women Prisoners in Labor and Concentration Camps

3 Videos

  • The Camp Prisoner
  • Surviving the Holocaust: The Story of Hanna Bar Yesha
  • Primo Levi

The "Last Jews"

    • 3 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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3 Videos

  • The "Last Jews"
  • Holocaust Survivor Testimonies: The Life of a Partisan
  • Abba Kovner: Underground and Partisan Commander in the Vilna Area

1 Readings

  • Selected Bibliography

Who Are the Jews and What Is Antisemitism?

    • 3 Videos
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3 Videos

  • Who Are the Jews and What Is Antisemitism?
  • Nature of Antisemitism
  • Holocaust Survivor Discusses Jewish-Polish Relations in Chelm Before WWII

Traditional Antisemitism: Theological Background

    • 1 Videos
    • 2 Readings
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1 Videos

  • Traditional Antisemitism: Theological Background

2 Readings

  • Ecclesia and Synagoga
  • The Blood Libel

Traditional Antisemitism

    • 1 Videos
    • 2 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • "The Ultimate Other"

1 Videos

  • Traditional Antisemitism: The Middle Ages

2 Readings

  • An Example of Anti-Jewish Restrictions
  • The Expulsion of Jews from England 1290

Modern Antisemitism

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 2 Discussion
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2 Discussions

  • Voltaire: Hatred of Jews and Antisemitism
  • From Heinrich von Trichke's Antisemitic Writings

1 Videos

  • Modern Antisemitism

1 Readings

  • The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Racial Antisemitism

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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1 Videos

  • Racial Antisemitism

1 Readings

  • Racism

Nazi Ideology

    • 1 Videos
    • 2 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • Antisemitic Propaganda

1 Videos

  • Nazi Ideology

2 Readings

  • Excerpts from Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf"
  • Selected Bibliography

Introduction: The Nazi Expansionist Policy and the First Deportations

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • The Central Bureau of Jewish Emigration

1 Videos

  • The Nazi Expansionist Policy and the First Deportations

1 Readings

  • The Four Year Plan

The Outbreak of World War II and Deportations in Poland

    • 2 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • The Appeasement Policy

2 Videos

  • The Outbreak of World War II and Deportations in Poland
  • The First Week of German Occupation of Liepaja

1 Readings

  • From the Writings of Emanuel Ringelblum

The Railway System and Its Role in the Implementation of the "Final Solution"

    • 2 Videos
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • The Transport

2 Videos

  • The Railway System and Its Role in the Implementation of the "Final Solution"
  • Holocaust Survivor Testimonies on the Deportations

Summer-Autumn 1941: The German Invasion of the Soviet Union and the Deportation of German Jewry to the East

    • 2 Videos
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • The Management of the Ghettos

2 Videos

  • Summer-Autumn 1941
  • The Deportation of Würzburg Jews to the East

1942-1944: Deportations - A Pan-European Phenomenon

    • 2 Videos
    • 2 Discussion
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2 Discussions

  • The Murder Process
  • The Deception Process

2 Videos

  • 1942-1944: Deportations - A Pan-European Phenomenon
  • A Deportation from Greece to Auschwitz

The End of World War II

    • 3 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 2 Discussion
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2 Discussions

  • The Mass Murder of Hungarian Jewry
  • Liberation and the Return to Life

3 Videos

  • The End of World War II
  • Liberators and Survivors: The First Moments
  • Holocaust Survivor Testimonies: The Anguish of Liberation

1 Readings

  • Selected Bibliography

The World After the Holocaust: Trauma, Memory and Culture

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • The World After the Holocaust

1 Videos

  • The World Today

1 Readings

  • Krakow Jewry Today

What Happened to the Concepts of Good and Bad?

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • The Concepts of Good and Bad

1 Videos

  • What Happened to the Concepts of Good and Bad?

Boundaries in the Representation of the Holocaust

    • 2 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • Who Should Set the Boundaries?

2 Videos

  • Boundaries in the Representation of the Holocaust
  • Teaching the Holocaust through Art: An Introduction

1 Readings

  • The Limits of Holocaust Representation \ Daniel Feldman

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Explore the profound history of the Holocaust with "Chosen Issues in Holocaust History," an enlightening course designed for those passionate about Arts & Humanities. Guided by expert instructors from Coursera, this professional-level course delves deep into the critical events and processes of the Holocaust era through fresh and engaging perspectives. Over approximately 1140 minutes of immersive content, learners will gain a comprehensive understanding of this pivotal period in history. Whether you're starting out with the Starter subscription or opting for the Professional plan, this course offers invaluable insights for anyone seeking to expand their knowledge of Holocaust history. Ideal for history enthusiasts, educators, and professionals looking to deepen their expertise.

Dr. Olga Ungar
Instructors

Dr. Olga Ungar

Yuval Ovadia
Instructors

Yuval Ovadia