Readings 2023 Maymester Study Abroad
Tracing the Holocaust

Read by May 16

Part I –Introduction

1. Charlotte Salomon self-portrait

2. “You who live safe,” Primo Levi

3. Poland Maps 2023, 1939

4. Difficult Questions – Antisemitism

5. Virtually Jewish, Ruth Gruber

6. Extra – No Pretty Pictures, Anita Lobel

7. Extra – Polish-Jewish Relations, Emanuel Ringelblum

Read by May 17

Part II – Auschwitz to Lodz

8. Transports-Auschwitz

9. Jewish Transports, by country

10. Selections on the Ramp, Robert Lifton

11. Health Professions – Auschwitz

Read by May 18

12. Murder in Markowa

13. Why People Are Boycotting a Museum Dedicated to Poles Saving Jews?

Read by May 20

14. Lodz Ghetto

15. Chelmno Death Camp

16. Extra – Human Guinea Pigs, Aliza Barouch

17. Extra – Only Pretty Women Were Raped

Read by May 22

Part III –  Warsaw to Treblinka

18. Every Third One of Us

19. POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

Read by May 24

20. Treblinka Scroll, Alexander Donat

21. Extra – Lessons from the Treblinka Archive, Chad Gibbs 

22. Extra – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Marek Edelman

Read by May 26

Part IV – Berlin, Ravensbrück, Buchenwald

23. Berlin 1933, Charlotte Salomon

24. The Himmler Brothers, Katrin Himmler

Read by May 27

25. Ravensbrück-Rabbits, Sarah Helm

26. Nadir of Nursing, Susan Benedict

27. Buchenwald, Nikolaus Wachsmann

28. Extra – Himmler’s Summation

29. Extra – Protocol no. 514

Read by May 30

Part V – Anne Frank & Charlotte Salomon

30. The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank

31. The Obsessive Art of Charlotte Salomon, Toni Bentley

32. Stolperstein, Charlotte Salomon

Read by June 1

33. Holocaust Lexicon

34. The Banality of Genocide, Konstantine Gebert

35. Extra – Say Their Names, Ted Rosengarten