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1 The Jews of Poland in the Second World War and the Holocaust Dr. Sara Bender Course Number: Semester: Sumer 2013 Class Time: Sundays, 10:00 14:00 Office Hours: Location: Tel.: (03) (Home) Class Location: (050) s: (03) Fax: Course Description: The course will examine the history of the Jews in Poland during World War II and the Holocaust, and it will focus on principal events undergone by Polish Jewry from the onset of War (1939) until the liberation (January 1945): the division of Poland (September 1939); Judenrats and Jewish leadership; Forced labor ( ); Daily life in the Warsaw, Łodz, Białystok and Vilna ghettos ; Types of Jewish resistance (passive, armed, in the woods, shelter among Poles); The Warsaw ghetto uprising and work in the labor camps ( ) as survival options. Course Requirements: Constant presence throughout the course and reading required materials. Final Grade: Class participation 30% Final Paper 70% Class No. 1, July 7, 2013 The Jews of Poland in the Interwar period Emanuel Melzer, No Way Out: The Politics of Polish Jewry, , Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College Press, Assimilation, in: The Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, ed. Gershon Hundert, Yale University Press, 2008, vol. I, pp Jerzy Tomaszewski, "The Civil Rights of Jews in Poland, ," in Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, vol. 8 (London: Littmann, 1994), pp Israel. Gutman, Polish Anti-Semitism between the Wars: An Overview, in: The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars, eds, Iisrael Gutman, Ezra Mendelsohn, Jehuda Reinharz and Chone Shmeruk, University press of New England, 1989, pp

2 - Israel. Gutman, S. Krakowski, Unequal Victims, Holocaust Library New York, 1986, pp Joanna Beata Michlic, Poland's Threatening Other, Nebraska 2006, pp Class No. 2 July 14, 2013 The Jews of Poland in World War II - GENERAL ITRODUCTION - Browning, The Origins of the Final Solution, chaps 3-4, pp The Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews, vol. I, pp Excerpts from: The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos during the Holocaust and The Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, Volume 2, Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe Class No. 3 July 21, Introduction No. 2 - Christopher R. Browning, The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939 March 1942 (Jerusalem and Lincoln: Yad Vashem and University of Nebraska Press, 2004), chapter 2, pp Dan Michman, The Jewish Ghettos under the Nazis and Their Allies: The Reasons Behind Their Emergence, in Guy Miron and Shlomit Shulhani, eds., The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos during the Holocaust (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009), pp. xiiixxxix - Martin Dean and Geoffrey P. Megargee, ed., The Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, , Volume 2, Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press and The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2012) - Iisrael Gutman, The Concept of Labor in Judenrat Policy, Patterns of Jewish Leadership in Nazi Europe (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1979), pp Class No. 4 July 28, ŁÓDŹ. Unger, Michal, Reassessment of the image of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, Jerusalem Yad Vashem, 2004, pp DS135.P63R

3 Rosenfeld, Oskar, In the beginning was the ghetto : notebooks from Lodz, Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2002, Memoirs DS135.P63R Zelkovich, Yosef, In those terrible days: writings from the Lodz Ghetto,Jerusalem Yad Vashem, 2002, Memoirs DS135.P62L The chronicle of the Lodz ghetto, , New Haven,Yale University Press, 1984 (Introduction only) DS135.P62L Sara Bender, The Jews in Bialystok during World War II and the Holocaust, Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England, 2008, pp Class No. 5, August 4, WARSAW (Warszawa) (PART I) - Gutman, Israel, The Jews of Warsaw, , Ghetto, Underground, Revolt, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1982, pp DS135.P62W Lewin, Abraham, A cup of tears: a diary of the Warsaw Ghetto, Oxford, OX, UK: Basil Blackwell in association with the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, Oxford, 1989, Memoirs DS135.P62W A commemorative Symposium in Honour of Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum and His "Oneg Shabbat" Underground Archives, Jerusalem Yad-Vashem, 1983, DS115.9.R5Y Adler, Stanislaw, In the Warsaw Ghetto, : An account of a witness, Jerusalem Yad Vashem, 1982, Memoirs DS135.P62W

4 - Engelking-Boni, Barbara, The Warsaw ghetto: a guide to the perished city, New Haven,Yale University Press, 2009, DS135.P62W Kassow, Samuel, Who will write our history? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, Bloomington Indiana University Press, 2007, pp DS135.P62W Czerniakow, Adam, The Warsaw diary of Adam Czerniakow prelude to doom, New York Stein and Day, 1979, DS135.P62W Class No. 6, August 11, 2013 Warsaw (Part II) - Lea Prais, An Unknown Chronicle: From the Literary Legacy of Rabbi Shimon Huberband, Warsaw Ghetto, May-June 1942, Yad Vashem Studies, 38:1 (2010), pp Szereszewska, Helena, Memoirs from occupied Warsaw, / London : Vallentine Mitchell, 1997, Memoirs - DS135.P63S Rotem, Simhah, Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto fighter : the past within me, New Haven Yale University Press, 1994, Memoirs DS135.P62W Miedzyrzecki, Feigele Peltel, On both sides of the wall : memoirs from the Warsaw Ghetto, Ghetto Fighters House, 1973, Memoirs DS135.P62W Mitchell, 1969, Zylberberg, Michael, The Warsaw diary, , London Vallentine, DS135.P62W Bartoszewski, Wladyslaw, Warsaw death ring, , Warsaw Interpress, 1968, Memoirs

5 - D802.P62W Zuckerman, Isaac, The fighting ghettos, Philadelphia 1962, J. B. Lippincott, Memoirs DS126.3.Z Class No. 7, August 18, Bialystok Grosman, Haikah. The underground army : fighters of the Bialystok ghetto, New York : Holocaust Library, 1987, Memoirs DS126.3.G Sara Bender, The Jews in Bialystok during World War II and the Holocaust, Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England, 2008, pp ; ; Class No. 8, August 25, Vilna (Wilno, Vilnius) - Kazimierz Sakowicz, Ponary Diary : A Bystander s Account of a Mass Murder, edited by Yitzhak Arad, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005, pp Yitzhak Arad, The Holocaust in the Soviet Union, Jerusalem and Lincoln: Yad Vashem and University of Nebraska Press, 2009, pp Arad, Yitzhak, Ghetto in flames: the struggle and destruction of the Jews in Vilna in the Holocaust / Jerusalem Yad Vashem, 1980 DS135.L52V Class No. 9 September 1, Ghetto Uprising Fact or Myth? - Gutman, Israel, Resistance - The Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Boston Houghton Mifflin, 1994, pp DS135.P62W

6 - Krall, Hanna, Shielding the flame : An intimate conversation with Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, New York, H. Holt, 1986, DS135.P62W Zuckerman, Yitzhak, A surplus of memory: chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Berkeley University of California Press, 1993 DS126.3.Z Wdowinski, David, And we are not save, New York, Philosophical Library, 1985, pp DS135.P62W Wdowinski, David, And we are not saved, London : W. H. Allen, 1964, pp DS135.P62W Borzykowski, Tuvia, Between tumbling walls, Beit Lohamei Hagettaot and Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1972 Memoirs - DS135.P62W Stroop, Jurgen, The Stroop report: the Jewish quarter of Warsaw is no more!, New York,Pantheon Books, 1979 Memoirs DS135.P62W Friedman, Philip, Martyrs and fighters : the epic of the Warsaw ghetto, New York F. A. Praeger, DS135.P62W