Course Outline

All Sessions will be held on Wednesday evenings from 6:30 to 9 PM at TempleB’rith Kodesh 2131 Elmwood Avenue Rochester 14618

1

10/14/09

Introduction:  The Two-Thousand-Year Road to the Holocaust:  An Interfaith Study

  • Rabbi Laurence Kotok
  • Henry Silberstern, Survivor

readings

glossary

Photo album page

 

2

10/21/09

In the Beginning:  A Family Feud (165 BCE – 150 CE)

  • Rev. Theodore J. Weeden

readings

Paul the Apostle
3 10/28/09 The Growth of Anti-Judaism
  • Professor Susan Nowak

readings

4

11/4/09

Anti-Judaism Spawns Anti-Semitism (1789 – 1914)

  • Deacon Anthony Sciolino

readings

Protocols of the Elders of Zion

5

11/11/09

A Hundred Years of Preparation Creating the Climate and Soil for the Holocaust (1830 – 1930)

  • Steve Hess, Survivor

readings

6

 

11/18/09

 

“Insights” 

  • Professor Charles Clarke 

Women and the Holocaust

  • Professor Susan Nowak

Hitler with the paraclete

 

7

 

12/2/09

 

The Nazification of Germany (1933 – 1938) 

  • Steve Hess, Survivor

readings

Survivor Testimony

  • Warren Heilbronner, Survivor

readings

Adolph Hitler

8

12/16/09

The Nuremberg Laws 

  • Hon:  Karen Morris

Kristallnacht

  • Hon:  Michael Miller
  • Professor Michael Dobkowski

readings

 

Bergen Belsen

9

1/6/10

The Holocaust:  From Poland to Barbarossa

  • Morris Wortman

readings

10

1/13/10

The Holocaust:  The “Final Solution.”

  • Steven Hess, Survivor

readings

Auschwitz

11

 

1/20/10

 

Roman Catholics and the Holocaust (1938 – 1945) 

  • Deacon Anthony Sciolino 

readings

Protestants and the Holocaust (1938 – 1945) 

  • Rev. Theodore J. Weeden

readings

Pope Pius XII
12 1/27/10 Life and Death in the Concentration Camps:A Twins story
  • Steven Hess and Marion Lewin

Learn more:

ilsehess.com

readings

Bergen Belsen
13 2/3/10 Immediate Aftermath

The Nuremberg Trials and International Military Tribunals

  • Hon. Karen Morris
14 2/10/10 Mourning, Scholarship and Repairing the World

םוע ןוקת (Tikkun Olam):

  • Professor Charlie Clarke
Tikkun Olam