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Resistance and Survival in World War II Poland Syllabus
A couple of years ago, I proposed a study travel trip to Poland focused on the intersections between Jim Crow and the Holocaust. Unfortunately, the trip didn’t make, so we didn’t get to go. However, one student wanted to take the course, and we did a directed study which led to a co-written essay. I have thought about trying to get this trip make again, but I didn’t really want to do one for next year. However, two things changed my mind. First and foremost, a colelague asked me if I’d be interested in a trip to Poland, and the other occurred in a course I taught this semester. In my graphic memoir class, students had to create their own graphic text as their final assignment. The text had to focus on an historical event, and since we did a couple of books about World War II, one group chose the Warsaw Ghetto because they had never heard about the ghettos. With these things in mind, I constructed a syllabus for a study travel trip focused on resistance and survival during World War II, centering in on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Warsaw Uprising, and Auschwitz. Below, you will find the preliminary syllabus for the course.
Course Overview
When we in the United States think about World War II, we usually think about a handful of events, typically ones that provide heroic details about how we fought to defeat Nazism. We…
