JUST 345A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Yom Hashoah, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
26 Apr 2019
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Straightjacket of history not first time ppl tried to kill jews, Destruction of jewish temple 586 bc, diaspora. Look at bailey alex, orientation, big ears li, cute , nick spontack high school, haley cursco. Continuous story of anti-jewish culture and mechanism to match that is impeded in. How jews respond was written into m. o. in diaspora. Ghetto no disguise between black culture until 1920"s. Yar vashem: 1st to investigate jews as subjects in holocaust (survivor testimony) Interested in studying the victims and the killers. Have to understand history before you get to victims. Genocide: destruction of a nation or of a ethnic group. Signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. Puts into terminology so germans can have something to be blamed for -> have a term to be charged with.
