The Holocaust

I hope you are doing well. Below are the proposed topics for your alternative assignment. Please note, that the research should follow the same format as our reflection essay and should be no less than 2 pages. This assignment will be submitted along with your reflection essay but the pages will not count towards the reflection essay.

Topics:  

The Holocaust is a broad topic and there are numerous sub-topics to choose from. You will be selecting your topic at random.

• Resistance
o Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
o Sobibor Uprising
o Hannah Senesh
o Hans and Sophie Scholl
o Oskar Schindler (Schindler Jews)

• Other possible topics
o Kristallnacht
o Nuremberg Race Laws (1935)
o Art of the Holocaust
o Josef Mengele
o War Crimes Trials (Nazis only)
o Memorialization & Yad Vashem
o Nazi medical experiments
o The Wannsee Conference / “The Final Solution to the Jewish Question”
o Death Marches from the east
o Holocaust denial