Holocaust Study Institute

Holocaust Study Institute 2010-2011 Course

Opening Session: Sunday, October 3rd

2:30 pm registration at the JCC for the HSI Course

3:30 pm Program: Open to the community- JCC Community Hall

Speaker Peter Hayes, PH.D., "The German Crisis, from Defeat to the Depression, 1918-1933".

Semester I: The Context of the Holocaust

Explore the history, sociology and politics of anti-Semitism and Jewish life prior to World War II.
Analyze the causes of the Holocaust including factors that influenced Nazi ideology.
Examine the Nazi rise to power and the beginning phases of the war against the Jews, including the T-4 Euthanasia Campaign, Kristallnacht, ghettoization and Einsatzgruppen.
This class requires registration. Deadline for registration is September 21, 2010.
Educator and university student discounts available. Graduate credit available through Alverno College.

Semester II: Development of the Killing Centers and the Nazi notion of the final solution to the Jewish Question:

Examine Nazism, with a focus on the plaxes included in the course travel component.
Discuss memorialization and reconciliation, including Majdanek, Belzec, Treblinka, Sobibor, Auschwitz, Ponary, Ninesfor and the Warsaw Ghetto.
Consider perpecrtives of rescue and resistance
Explore Terezin and its uniqueness among concentration camps.
Explore contemporary Jewish life in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
Educator and university student discounts available. Graduate credit available through Alverno College.

Course Dates:

Semester I: October 19, November 2,16,30 and December 14

Semester II: January 25, February 8 and 22, March 22, April 5 and 12

Classes meet from 7:00-9:00 p.m. at the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center, 6255 N. Santa Monica Blvd. Whitefish Bay, WI

Total registration cost for HSI Course, Semester I & II $180.00. Registration cost for one semester $100.00.

To register call Bonnie at 414-963-2719 or email bonnies@milwaukeejewish.org

Nathan and Esther Pelz