HIS338H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Warsaw Uprising, Ghetto Uprising
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18 october 1941 deportations of jews from germany begins: western and northern europe, southern europe, jewish compliance: july 1942-september 1942, chronology of deportation from the warsaw ghetto, reactions to deportation, the lodz ghetto, the warsaw ghetto uprising. Statistics: death camps and labor camps, numbers of deaths, liberation. Life in the camps: prisoner hierarchy, work in the camps, in the hospitals, in the political departments, in the brothels, slave labor. Torture: the hospitals, the political department, torture through fear, torture through humiliation. Modes of survival: bruno bettelheim: the informed heart, victor frankl: man"s search for meaning, tzvetan todorov: facing the extreme, terence des pres: the survivor, primo levi: the gray zone , jean amery: at the mind"s limits. How: before the mas murder even began, it was quite clear that there was no clear plan, we talked about anti-semitism and whether or not we could see continuity.