PPT-Forever in the shadow of the Holocaust?: The Shoah & Genocide Studies

Holocaust Studies Genocide Studies A Shared History amp Shared Future Raphael Lemkin The father of Genocide Studies The etymology of genocide Genos Greek race and cide. and the Law. Joachim . Savelsberg. University of Minnesota. Department of Sociology. Sources assigned and referred to in presentation. Stiftung. . Topographie. des Terrors. 2010. Topography of Terror. Berlin (catalogue).. Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism. Ancient Genocides. The Armenian Genocide. The Holocaust. Apartheid. Rwanda. Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia. Darfur. Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism Project. s. . “For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.” . ~. Elie. Wiesel. That there was more than one. Did you know?. The . Defenition. . Holocaust. - . any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life. An act of commemoration before Holocaust Memorial day. Holocaust (. Shoah. ). Extermination camps. . Auschwitz 1,000,000. . Belzec. 600,000. . Chełmno. 320,000. . Jasenovac. 58,000 – 97,000. Dilemmas. Avi. Patt, University of Hartford. Alan Marcus, University of Connecticut. Pedagogical Dilemmas. Teaching the Holocaust and Genocide with Film. Teaching the Holocaust and Genocide with other documents. The Holocaust and Rwanda. Genocide. the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group. Examples: Holocaust, Rwanda, Armenians, Bosnia, Sudan. Concentration Camp for Bosnian Muslims and Croats. English 3-4. A Research Project. 1. The Armenians. Country: Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. Time Period: 1915 to the 1920s. The Persecutors: The Turks. The Victims: The Armenians. Extra Information: Although about 2, 000,000 Armenians are suspected of being killed during this time period, even today it is illegal in Turkey to talk of the Armenians or that their deaths might be considered a genocide.. http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=E225113F-C73C-4396-9FE2-F6CC16167909&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US#. Holocaust . Animated Maps of the Holocaust. View the animated map titled “World War II and the Holocaust.”. Why is it useful in today’s society to teach about the Holocaust? . In the Holocaust…. 11 . million people were . killed in . a span of 12 years from 1933-. 1945, of those killed . 6 million were . Quotes on Genocide . There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history. .. Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood. government led by Adolf Hitler and the. Nazi Party carried out the systematic. persecution and murder of Europe’s Jews.. This genocide is now known. as the Holocaust.. The Holocaust. Something similar was going on in Europe to the . 1. CLASSIFICATION:. . Classification is the categorizing of people into groups. They are classified by race, religion and/or nationality. An us versus them attitude is introduced and promoted. . Classification will always take place; it has happened in Ireland. There are divisions drawn between Protestants and Catholics, and between Nationals and Non-Nationals. There are ways of insuring that these classifications don't escalate. If both sides find a common ground, tolerance can grow.. Rwandan. Great Purge. genocide. genocide. The . systematic and purposeful . destruction. . of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group. Systematic and . purposeful. Destruction: . large scale annihilation; . Shoah Resource Center The International School for Holocaust StudiesFirst let us describe the situation in Denmark in general terms On several occasions Hitler declared that he