COURSE INFORMATION:

Students will be enrolled in the 3 credit course JWST 300: Tracing the Holocaust in Eastern Europe.


PROGRAM INFORMATION:

This program will take students to a part of the world where Nazi Germany carried out the “final solution to the Jewish question” under the cover of World War II. Poland was home to some three and half million Jews, 90% of whom died in the Holocaust. Another two million Jews from every corner of Europe were transported to their deaths at extermination centers such as Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Chelmno-- three places that this program will visit in Poland. At least 1.5 million Jewish people were murdered in the "Borderlands" stretching from eastern Poland, north and east across the Baltic countries, Belorussia, and Ukraine.

In Lviv, Krakow, and Warsaw, the students will tour former Jewish neighborhoods and visit museums, synagogues, and churches in the “old town” of each city. In the evenings, students will meet with Polish university students. In Munich the program will tour the "hot spots" of National Socialism, where Hitler's movement and the ideology of the master race took shape. In Berlin, the program will visit the new Jewish Museum, the Museum to the Murdered Jews of Europe, and other sites that illuminate the history of a once-thriving people decimated under a banner of hatred in the heart of civilized Europe. At every stop, the program will investigate how the Holocaust is remembered and forgotten, and how young Ukrainians, Poles, and Germans come to grips with an unspeakable past.


PROGRAM DIRECTORS:

Theodore Rosengarten
Department of Jewish Studies
tedrsc@gmail.com
843-953-5156

Professor Rosengarten is the Zucker-Goldberg Professor of Holocaust Studies at CofC. He has previously led study a broad groups to Poland and Germany in 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011, and 2014. He also made a recent trip to the Ukraine and Poland (Sept 2012) to make academic presentations.

Dale Rosengarten
Special Collections-Addlestone Library
rosengartend@cofc.edu
843-953-8028

Ms. Rosengarten is the director of the Jewish Heritage Collection at the College’s Addlestone Library and is a scholar of American Jewish history. She has assisted in several other study abroad programs, including programs to Poland and Germany in 2009, 2011, and 2014.