This course from the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education is designed to build your subject knowledge and empower your students to:
- Develop secure knowledge and understanding about the diversity and the long history of Jewish life in Europe and the important contributions that Jewish people made to their communities and countries.
- Understand where the Holocaust took place and who the victims were.
- Understand how and why the Holocaust unfolded differently in different spaces and the significance of Eastern Europe.
- Recognise the significance of the Holocaust by ‘seeing’ the spaces that it left, the loss of individuals, whole families and the destruction of entire communities and a way of life across Europe.
To achieve this, we will consider the Centre’s research findings, explore some of the Centre’s classroom resources and hear from Dr Waitman Wade Beorn, Associate Professor in History at Northumbria University discuss the importance of including prewar Jewish life in any study of the Holocaust.
