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Course Description:
Course Description:
This course will take a detailed look at the Holocaust principally from an Italian perspective. Through a combination of class lectures, on-site visits, discussions, film screenings and readings, students will be able to connect decisions taken in Fascist Italy with the end result of forced labour and mechanised killing. In doing so they will gain knowledge of pre-Fascist and Fascist Italy’s relationship with its Jewish population, the repressive nature of the dictatorship, its involvement in the Second World War and its alliance with Nazi Germany to gain a thorough grounding in how scholars have sought to explain Italy’s Holocaust. Having established the processes and practicalities by which Jews in Italy were rounded-up and deported from occupied Italy, students will reflect upon debates surrounding guilt and how this has been used to excuse or deflect responsibility for the deportation and murder of religious and political prisoners. Instruction will consist of a series of online lectures and class debates around assigned readings, film and literature. Throughout the duration of course we shall be reading and discussing Primo Levi’s account of his experience of surviving Auschwitz in If this is a Man. Providing a solid grounding in Italy’s role in the Holocaust, the course will also introduce students to how memory of this particular event has been/is constructed, used and abused for political means.
This course will take a detailed look at the Holocaust principally from an Italian perspective. Through a combination of class lectures, on-site visits, discussions, film screenings and readings, students will be able to connect decisions taken in Fascist Italy with the end result of forced labour and mechanised killing. In doing so they will gain knowledge of pre-Fascist and Fascist Italy’s relationship with its Jewish population, the repressive nature of the dictatorship, its involvement in the Second World War and its alliance with Nazi Germany to gain a thorough grounding in how scholars have sought to explain Italy’s Holocaust. Having established the processes and practicalities by which Jews in Italy were rounded-up and deported from occupied Italy, students will reflect upon debates surrounding guilt and how this has been used to excuse or deflect responsibility for the deportation and murder of religious and political prisoners. Instruction will consist of a series of online lectures and class debates around assigned readings, film and literature. Throughout the duration of course we shall be reading and discussing Primo Levi’s account of his experience of surviving Auschwitz in If this is a Man. Providing a solid grounding in Italy’s role in the Holocaust, the course will also introduce students to how memory of this particular event has been/is constructed, used and abused for political means.
Schedule:
Schedule:
Tuesday 9:00-12:30
Lesson Format: Weekly classes on-site in the city mixed with in-classroom lectures and discussions
Lesson Format: Weekly classes on-site in the city mixed with in-classroom lectures and discussions
Keywords: HISTORY, ITALIAN STUDIES
Keywords: HISTORY, ITALIAN STUDIES
Pre-Requisites: None
Pre-Requisites: None
Enrollment Limited to 12
Enrollment Limited to 12
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EXCURSION INFO
EXCURSION INFO
Excursions may change
Weekend Course Trip
Weekend Course Trip
Bologna, Fossoli, Carpi, Varese (Fall)
This courses travels to the cities of Bologna, Fossoli, Carpi in the Emilia-Romagna area, plus Milan and Varese (Fall) where students visit sites related to the memory of the Holocaust in Italy. Sites including a deportation camp and a museum dedicated to the memory and history of the deportation of Jewish Italians and political prisoners. In the Fall, students also hike the ‘Sentiero della Salvezza’ (Path to Salvation) on the Italian-Swiss border across which Jews were trafficked during the Nazi-Fascist occupation. They also visit ‘Binario 21’ (Platform 21) beneath Milan Central Station from where Jews and political prisoners were deported in cattle trucks. During the weekend, students will reflect on the ways in which the Holocaust is remembered and memorialized in Italy.
This courses travels to the cities of Bologna, Fossoli, Carpi in the Emilia-Romagna area, plus Milan and Varese (Fall) where students visit sites related to the memory of the Holocaust in Italy. Sites including a deportation camp and a museum dedicated to the memory and history of the deportation of Jewish Italians and political prisoners. In the Fall, students also hike the ‘Sentiero della Salvezza’ (Path to Salvation) on the Italian-Swiss border across which Jews were trafficked during the Nazi-Fascist occupation. They also visit ‘Binario 21’ (Platform 21) beneath Milan Central Station from where Jews and political prisoners were deported in cattle trucks. During the weekend, students will reflect on the ways in which the Holocaust is remembered and memorialized in Italy.
COURSE VIDEO
COURSE VIDEO
Course photos
Course photos
Stumbling Stones in memory of the deportees, Jewish Ghetto
Stumbling Stones in memory of the deportees, Jewish Ghetto
Museo Monumento al Deportato, Carpi
Museo Monumento al Deportato, Carpi
Deportation camp, Fossoli
Deportation camp, Fossoli
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