Jewish-Non-Jewish Relations and the Holocaust

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The course will examine case studies of Jewish non-Jewish relations during the Holocaust, as well as rescue attempts whether initiated by Jews, by non-Jews, or both. Several overlapping topics will be addressed, among them, the events in Jedwabne in July 1941 Polish-Jewish relations during the war partisans and family camps rescue efforts in several European countries; the question of the bombing of Auschwitz; hiding children in Church institutions the reactions of the Pope and the Vatican and the Righteous Among the Nations.