Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Immigrants & Minorities
Angaben zur Quelle:
13,1 (1994) 65-76
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Study and teaching
;
Jews
Abstract:
A revised version of a paper presented at the conference "Teaching the Holocaust: Issues and Dilemmas", Wittenberg University, Ohio, October 1993. Relates the experiences of the author and his students in 1990, 1991, and 1993, when he taught a course on "The Geography of the Holocaust". The course focused on spatial relations, such as the surrounding landscape of Jewish settlements, the ghettos, slave labor camps and death camps in Poland, and the "geography of the bystander" then and now. Describes field trips to Poland as part of the course. Charlesworth wished to confront his students with the tension of belief that exists between the historical record and the places and landscapes where the events occurred. States that engaging so deeply with the Holocaust through experience of place and landscape marks the participants as witnesses - bearers of testimony - just like the survivors.
Note:
Another version appeared in "New Perspectives on the Holocaust" (1996).
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