Between Memory and History: Interviewing Holocaust Survivors

Seminar, two hours; fieldwork, two hours. Strongly recommended requisites: prior European and Holocaust history courses. Examination of historical value of eyewitness testimony of Holocaust through unique service opportunities that bring students together with survivors. Question of testimony approached from number of perspectives, including legal, historical, and ethical, to examine vexed relationship between history and memory. Examination of survivor testimony through classic memoirs in field, such as Primo Levi's "The Drowned and the Saved" and Ruth Kluger's "Still Alive." Through collaboration with Jewish Family Services, 1939 Club, and Los Angeles Museum of Holocaust, students meet and work with Holocaust survivors and undertake collaborative research projects and oral histories. Students also research and curate series of interactive tours through Museum of Holocaust. Letter grading.

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Todd Presner
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14W 13W 12W

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