TRAVEL DATES: JUNE 25 – JULY 4, 2022
Seminar Workshops Recordings, Handouts, Power Points and Resources: CLICK HERE
BBC story about the Windmere boys, one of whom was Howard Chandler: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0000xrc
Suggested Titles for expanding your knowledge prior to travel:
- Remembering Survival (Browning)
- Rethinking the Holocaust (Bauer)
- Ordinary Men (Browning), Neighbors (Gross)
- Warsaw Ghetto (Mary Berg)
- The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow
- The Holocaust Kingdom (Donat)
- Black Earth: Holocaust as History and Warning (Snyder)
- Bloodlands (Snyder), Nazi Germany and the Jews vol 1&2 (Friedlander)
Titles you may want to purchase with your $100 stipend: (All educators participating in CWB seminars receive a $100 stipend towards the purchase of topic related books. SAVE YOUR RECEIPTS!!)
- Laurence Rees, The Holocaust: A New History
- Götz Aly, Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust
- Nikolaus Wachsmann, KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
- Peter Hayes, Why? Explaining the Holocaust
- Christopher Browning, Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp
- The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow, edited by Raul Hilberg
- David Cesarani, Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949
- Samuel Kassow, Who Will Write Our History?: Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto
- Alexander Donat, The Holocaust Kingdom (memoir)
- David Engel, The Holocaust: The Third Reich and The Jews 2nd Edition (great overview for high school students)
Films to see before traveling to Poland: (by order of priority)
******CWB suggests that all educators see the first two films within 1 month prior to travel –if possible. *********
- A Film Unfinished directed by Yael Hersonski (2011) – A documentary film that attempts to uncover the creators (and their agenda) of a Nazi propaganda film made in the Warsaw Ghetto a short time before it was liquidated in the summer of 1942.
- The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski (2002) – Based on a true story of a Jewish pianist who survived in hiding, this film lays out many of the realities and dilemmas facing Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
- Son of Saul directed by Laszlo Nemes (2015) – Oscar winning film about a member of the Sondercommando (the Jews who disposed of the bodies after the gassing…).
- Conspiracy directed by Frank Pierson (2001) – A film based on the minutes of the Wanssee Conference (Jan 1942) – which laid out the bureaucratic infrastructure for the Final Solution.
- Schindler’s List directed by Steven Spielberg (1993) – Based on the true story of a Righteous Gentile, this film portrays the travails & demise of the Jewish community of Krakow as well as the unusual activity of a German industrialist who undergoes a moral metamorphosis.
- Fiddler on the Roof directed by Norman Jewison (1971) – Musical that adapted a famous novel by the Yiddish novelist Sholem Aliechem. The film portrays Jewish village (Shtetl) life in Czarist Russia around the turn of the twentieth century – the dilemmas facing Jews in Eastern Europe and their options. Poland was under the Czarist Empire during this period, so it also reflects their situation to a certain degree.
- Sunshine directed by Istvan Szabo (1999) – A dramatic film relating to three generations of a Hungarian Jewish family from the end of the 19th century through the Holocaust till the fall of communism. The film gives an excellent snapshot of the dilemmas facing Jews who strived to integrate into Central European society and their fate during much of the 20th century, including during the Holocaust.
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