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
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
9. Jewish Transports, by country
10. Selections on the Ramp, Robert Lifton
11. Health Professions – Auschwitz
Read by May 18
13. Why People Are Boycotting a Museum Dedicated to Poles Saving Jews?
Read by May 20
14. Lodz Ghetto
16. Extra – Human Guinea Pigs, Aliza Barouch
17. Extra – Only Pretty Women Were Raped
Read by May 22
Part III – Warsaw to Treblinka
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
34. The Banality of Genocide, Konstantine Gebert
35. Extra – Say Their Names, Ted Rosengarten