Course Readings

Books (bring with you on the trip)

Peter Hayes, Why? Explaining the Holocaust. New York: W.W. Norton, 2017.

Father Patrick Desbois, The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews. New York: Palgrave, 2008.

Articles:

  1. Tim Cole. Holocaust Landscapes. London, Oxford, New York, New Delhi, Sydney. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2016. “Prologue,” 9-20. “Ghetto,” 21-43. “Camp,” 70-98.
  2. Robert Sommer, “Sexual Exploitation of Women in Nazi Concentration Camp Brothels.” In Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust. , Sonja M. Hedgepeth and rochelle G. Saidel. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2010, 45-60.
  3. Maia Zalewsk. “Selfies from Auschwitz: Rethinking the Relationship Between Spaces of Memory and Places of Commemoration in The Digital Age”. Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media. No 18 (2017): 95–116.
  4. Ruth Gruber, “Scenes from a Krakow Cafe.” Moments Magazine: Independent Journalism from a Jewish Perspective. (January/February 2010).
  5. “Traveling Tschotschkes” from Erica T. Lehrer, Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places.  Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2013, 159-175.
  6. Yankel Wiernik. A Year in Treblinka. http://www.zchor.org/treblink/wiernik.htm.
  7. Shlomo Venezia, Excerpt from Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz. Cambridge: UK: Polity, 2009, xi-xv; 34-54.
  8. Sarah Hodgkinson, “The Concentration Camp as a Site of Dark Tourism,” Témoigner, Entre Histoire et Memoire, 116 (2013): 22-30.
  1. “The Rapes” from Father Patrick Desbois, In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets. Hilary Reyl and Calvert Barksdale. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2018, 69-74.