More than half a century after the end of the Holocaust, we have learned much about the causes, organization, and terrible consequences of the genocide of European Jews, but a massive outpouring of research continues to add to and modify our knowledge of this event. 

This class focuses on the Holocaust and on making use of new findings, and integrates the latest research to provide students with the most recent knowledge to introduce current and emerging historical debates. The class will also discuss how we can apply this new information to build on past findings.

• Causes of the Holocaust: Historical research has led to new insights about varied paths that converged to lead to mass destruction.

• Organization: New research has modified our understanding both of killing methods and of Europe with far more sites for killing and imprisonment than previously suspected.

• Perpetrators and Bystanders: We now know far more about broad circles of perpetrators and of the potential of bystanders to become perpetrators or rescuers.

• Survival: We have learned about the varied paths to survival.

Holocaust: What We Know Now

HIST 7140 CRN 60431
July 8 - July 11, 2019
Mon - Thurs, 9AM - 4PM
followed by online component

Instructor: Benjamin Lieberman, blieberman@fitchburgstate.edu

Dr. Lieberman has taught courses on the Holocaust and genocide for 20 years and has authored the following books:

• The Holocaust and Genocides in Europe
• Remaking Identities: God, Nation, and Race in World History
• Terrible Fate: Ethnic Cleansing in the Making of Modern Europe
  
  

Thanks to Dr. Benjamin Lieberman for sharing this post.