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The Holocaust

The Holocaust. Johnathan Dresner : "He was an adventurer. He was like an actor who always wanted to be centre stage. He got into a play, and he couldn't get out of it."

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The Holocaust

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  1. The Holocaust

  2. Johnathan Dresner: "He was an adventurer. He was like an actor who always wanted to be centre stage. He got into a play, and he couldn't get out of it." • Mosche Bejski: "Schindler was a drunkard. Schindler was a womanizer. His relations with his wife were bad. He often had not one but several girlfriends. Everything he did put him in jeopardy. If Schindler had been a normal man, he would not have done what he did." • Danka Dresner: "We owe our lives to him. But I wouldn't glorify a German because of what he did for us. There is no proportion." • Ludwik Feigenbaum: "I don't know what his motives were, even though I knew him very well. I asked him and I never got a clear answer and the film doesn't make it clear, either. But I don't give a damn. What's important is that he saved our lives." • Helen Rosenzweig: "I couldn't make him out . . . I think he felt sorry for me.” 1. After reading the comments of the Schindlerjuden, why do you think Oskar Schindler did what he did? 2. Should we hold accountable people who did not actively try to stop the atrocities of the Holocaust, as Schindler did? Should we criminalize the inactivity of the “bystanders?” 3. Can compensation ever be made for what happened to the Jewish population of Europe? Should the present generation be held responsible, even partially, for the crimes (or inaction) of the previous generation?

  3. Yad Vashem ("Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority"): • Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust established in 1953 • "And to them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name (Yad Vashem) that shall not be cut off." (Isaiah, chapter 56, verse 5). The Hall of Names containing Pages of Testimony commemorating the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.

  4. Three types of individuals in the Holocaust: • Perpetrators • Bystanders • Victims

  5. Wyjąć arkusz papieru!Which one, for this assignment, are you? • Perpetrators (if your last name begins with A-K) • Bystanders (if your last name begins with L-R) • Victims (if your last name begins with S-Z) • Answer the questions from the following slides for your assigned type…

  6. Perpetrators • How do they justify what they do? • How do they convince themselves that they are still “good?” • FOR EVERYONE… • It is 1948. Survivors of the Holocaust want a homeland of their own so they can defend themselves in case of future attempts at extermination. They want land in the Mideast that is claimed by an Arab people, the Palestinians. The Jews consider this land their ancient and traditional homeland. So do the Palestinians. Both sides have made this claim for thousands of years. • Should the United Nations give this land to the Holocaust survivors?

  7. Bystanders • How do they justify their inaction? • Should they be held responsible for the deaths of victims? • FOR EVERYONE… • It is 1948. Survivors of the Holocaust want a homeland of their own so they can defend themselves in case of future attempts at extermination. They want land in the Mideast that is claimed by an Arab people, the Palestinians. The Jews consider this land their ancient and traditional homeland. So do the Palestinians. Both sides have made this claim for thousands of years. • Should the United Nations give this land to the Holocaust survivors?

  8. Victims • How do they forgive the perpetrators? • Should the bystanders be held responsible (even partially) for what happened? • It is 1948. Survivors of the Holocaust want a homeland of their own so they can defend themselves in case of future attempts at extermination. They want land in the Mideast that is claimed by an Arab people, the Palestinians. The Jews consider this land their ancient and traditional homeland. So do the Palestinians. Both sides have made this claim for thousands of years. • Should the United Nations give this land to the Holocaust survivors?

  9. Collaborators Members of a Sonderkommando 1005 unit pose next to a bone crushing machine in the Janowska concentration camp. (Jun 1943

  10. Collaborators Should those who helped the Nazis commit these atrocities be held accountable? Can we hold people to normal standards of morality during such an “abnormal” event?

  11. The Auschwitz bombing debate • As early as 1940, the Allies had information that Nazi Germany was trying to murder every Jew in Europe. • By 1944, the Allies had practical air superiority over Europe. • Some historians assert that Allied bombers could have attacked the death camp at Auschwitz and thus halted the extermination of thousands, maybe millions, of Jews. • Other historians claim that the Allies needed to focus on military targets, with the goal of ending the war as soon as possible. • Which was the more moral choice?

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