Midwest Center for Holocaust Education

Course Name: EDD 8345 PERSPECTIVES ON THE HOLOCAUST – EASTERN EUROPE

Dates: June 11-14, 2018 Time: 9:00-4:00 Location: Jewish Community Campus Conference Room C 5801 West 115th Street Overland Park, KS 66211-1800

Graduate Credit: Cost: $140 for 2 hours graduate credit https://bakeruniversity.formstack.com/forms/midwest_holocaust_education_coop

Registration Fee: A registration fee of $20 per session, or $60 for the entire series, includes all necessary materials. Participants must register and attend all 4 sessions to earn credit. A registration fee payable to the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education covers all course materials. This fee is in addition to the Baker University tuition. Participants should complete a registration form and pay course fees by June 1, 2018.

Instructor: Jessica Rockhold Phone: 913-327-8195 Title: Director of Education Email: [email protected]

Course Description:

The Holocaust is often seen and taught as an event with a singular perspective. Part of the effort to personalize the history is to see how the same historical event impacted individuals in unique and varied ways. These workshops examine the experience of the Holocaust through a few of the many perspectives of those who lived through it. They will focus on the policy and experience of perpetration based on geography – specifically focusing on Eastern Europe.

Each workshop will feature primary source documents and resources for classroom use. Pending availability, a survivor representing a specific geographic experience will be interviewed during each session.

Content and activities are appropriate for junior high, middle school and high school educators ONLY.

Course Objectives: 1. Participants will be able to identify the unique geographical experiences of Jews during the Holocaust. 2. Participants will be able to identify how geographical location impacted Nazi policy toward the Jews. 3. Participants will be able to evaluate how geographical location impacted possible Jewish responses to the Holocaust. 4. Participants will be able to outline how the timeline progression of World War II intersects with geographical location to impact the progression of the Holocaust. 5. Participants will be able to analyze primary source documents and relate that knowledge to their classroom teaching. 6. Participants will be able to illustrate concrete methods for incorporating this historical information by identifying 3 new historical concepts and 2 new resources and outlining how they will incorporate them into their classroom teaching. 7. Participants will be able to outline and develop teaching activities which integrate responses to the Holocaust in a lesson they can utilize in their unique teaching environments. 8. Participants will be able to identify 3 relevant outside sources and illustrate how these enhance and support their lesson plans. At least one source must be primary.

Textbook/Materials: All necessary materials will be provided as handouts by the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education.

Content Outline: Participants will take part in interactive training and lessons under the guidance of educators from the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education. Outside of class they will research and develop teaching activities for use in 7th-12th grade classrooms which incorporate primary source documents and appropriate pedagogical approaches. Specific topics are subject to date and time change.

• June 11, 2018 – The Holocaust in Germany German Jews experienced six years of increasing persecution before World War II officially began in Europe. These years applied unique pressures on that community but also afforded it an important window of time in which to take action to leave Germany and, sometimes, even Europe. For those who did not manage to secure their emigration from Germany, the Holocaust unfolded differently than anywhere else in Europe. This session will explore the unique circumstances of the Holocaust in Germany. • June 12, 2018 - The Holocaust in Poland Beginning with the Nazi invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, Polish Jews faced immediate persecution and acts of violence. Their experiences of the Holocaust which included war-time occupation, ghettoization, forced labor and the first deportations to killing centers resulted in a 90% death rate. This session will explore these unique factors of the Holocaust in Poland with an emphasis on the Operation Reinhard killing centers. • June 13, 2018 – The Holocaust in the Soviet Union Operation Barbarosa brought total war and genocide to the Jews of eastern Poland and the Soviet Union. As the German armies conquered territory moving eastward, special squads called the Einsatzgruppen implemented the first genocidal policies of the Holocaust as they conducted mass shootings. This shift in German policy resulted in a unique set of circumstances ranging from mass murder to the flight of refugees deep into the Soviet Union where they often faced persecution by a different oppressor. This session will explore the unique circumstances of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union. • June 14, 2018 – The Holocaust in Hungary In 1944 there was one remaining, largely intact Jewish community left in Europe. The Jews of Hungary, living in an Axis country, had faced discrimination and persecution at the hands of the Hungarians, but the country had not been occupied and the Jews had not been deported. That all changed in the spring of 1944, when in the course of fewer than three months, the country was occupied and its Jewish population was deported and largely murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This represented the height of the capabilities of the industrial killing complex and a specific and concerted effort by the Nazis to reach this community before the war was lost. This session will explore the unique circumstances of the Holocaust in Hungary. Note: Session topics subject to change.

Assessment: Attendance and active participation in group discussions and activities are required at all sessions. Attendance and participation account for 30% of the grade. • Reflection paper: 20% of course grade Choose a local survivor from one of the countries covered in this course in the Witnesses to the Holocaust Archive (www.mchekc.org/survivors). View and read their testimony and accompanying historical material. Write a 750-1500 word (3-6 page) reflection paper on how that survivor’s personal experiences represent a particular geographic perspective on the Holocaust. • Culminating assignment: 50% of the course grade Develop a complete teaching activity that you can utilize in your unique teaching environment which integrates the survivor testimony from your reflection paper. The lesson must incorporate at least 3 additional relevant outside sources (at least one of which must be primary) and illustrate how these enhance and support your lesson plans. At least one source must be primary. The lesson must be age-appropriate and meet the criteria outlined in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Guidelines for Teaching the Holocaust.

This assignment accounts for 50% of the course grade and will be assessed based on synthesis of the course material and historical accuracy. Plagiarism will result in a zero for this assignment. The assignment is due by 5:00, June 29, 2018. Assignments may be emailed to Jessica Rockhold or delivered to the MCHE office.

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