History and Holocaust Testimony

Graduate / Professional

This course focuses on Holocaust testimony to ground students in the history of how victims’ experiences are narrated and assessed by historians and other interpreters who shape the afterlives of historical events. Class readings underscore how Holocaust memory has changed over time, including how it belatedly became an event primarily about the genocide of European Jewry. We read histories, testimonies, and work on the relationship between the historical memories of the Holocaust and of European Imperialism. WR , HU T 1:30pm-3:25pm