Announcements (old announcements move to bottom)

• Feb 20, 2003: On March 10, 2003, 5pm: Prof. Michael Thaler will present his work about: "Unlikely Witnesses: Children's Voices in the Holocaust", in HSSB Rm 6020. Detailed information on IHC webpage.
• Feb. 20: to search for book reviews: on this UCSB library page, go to "E" in the alphabet, scroll down and click on "Expanded Academic"
  Note: this will only work from within the UCSB domain (.ucsb.edu), or if you can set your computer up as a proxy server.
• Feb. 16: Prospectus handout (printable .pdf); text of professor's explanatory e-mail.
• Feb. 16, 9pm: Nina Morecki will not be able to come this Tuesday, but she has promised to come on Tue., Feb. 25.
  In any case here is the URL for her site, which contatins her story: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/holocaust/index.html.

Course Description

In this seminar we will learn about the discipline of history by examining how the Nazi Holocaust has been represented both while it was occurring and after it ended. Our sources will include contemporary mass media reports, memoirs, films, works of fiction, scholarly books, and textbooks.
We will practice what historians do: examining primary sources, learning background information, formulating questions, conducting research, analyzing and interpreting data, and presenting our conclusions. We will tackle each of these tasks step-by-step. The course is designed for students with minimal background knowledge of the Holocaust, or of what historians do.

Headings on this web page (back to top)

• Announcements
• Course materials and class-by-class links
• other links of interest
• Materials from Prof. Marcuse's other Holocaust courses
• Old Announcements

Course materials (back to top)

• final syllabus
• Weekly handouts:
  • week 1: Holocaust overview
  • week 2: Kristallnacht
  • week 4: Europa, Europa and timeline (.pdf)
  • week 5: Prospectus handout, (.pdf)
• Course books:
  • Mary Lynn Rampolla, Pocket Guide to Writing History (3rd ed., 2001)
  • Jan Gross, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland (Penguin edition, 2002)
  • Reader (table of contents) available at Alternative Copy in IV

Links to additional web resources (suggestions welcome) (back to top)

• Anne Frank is the subject of many sites (see Women and the Holocaust):
  • official institutional sites in Netherlands, US, UK, Deutschland (in German)
  • Nicole Gaspari's very detailed site (German student who first saw a film when she was 16 in 1998)
  • review of Mueller's biography in the Denver Post
  • essay about M. Mueller's biography by a student in my Hist. 133Q, 2001
• annotated lists of Holocaust links
  • commented, alphabetical list of Holocaust links (Prof. Al Filreis, English, UPenn)
  • Holocaust Links page (Joyce Meyer, Champaigne-Urbana Jewish Federation)
• Internet Resources on Genocide and Mass Killings from the University of the West of England.
  Timeline, Documents, Glossary, Functionaries of the Third Reich, War Crimes and Criminals,
  Genocide and Mass Killing, The Jewish Holocaust, World War II Resources.
• Hypermedia Sourcebook: "Responses to the Holocaust," by Robert Leventhal, Univ. of Virginia

Materials from Prof. Marcuse's other Holocaust-related courses (back to top)

• Hist 33D: "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Holocaust" (a lower division lecture course)
  • Fall 2002 web site (with syllabus, links, lecture outlines)
• Hist 133Q: "Readings in Holocaust History" (a seminar course for 15 students)
  Note especially the books read for each course: they are core texts about the Holocaust
  • Fall 2001, Wint.1999, Fall 1999, Wint.1998
• Hist 133D: "The Holocaust in German History" (an upper-division lecture course)
• 2001 syllabus, web site
• 1999 syllabus, web site (with all lecture handouts)

Old Announcements (back to top

• Jan. 7: site is still under construction
• Jan. 7: Four films will be shown on Wed. evenings at 6:30pm (1/22: Schindler's List);(2/5: Europa, Europa);(2/19: Anne Frank selections);(3/6: Escape from Sobibor). The room will be announced in advance.
• Jan. 9: The course is FULL. There is no more possibility of enrolling.
• Jan. 14. Film showings: on Tuesdays at 6:30 in Phelps 1425; on Wednesdays at 6:30 in HSSB 4041.
• due Jan. 14: read Friedlander's chapter "The Onslaught", answer questions on handout, and make a draft of the Kristallnacht assignment
• on Jan. 16, in downtown Santa Barbara (524 Chapala), at 7:30pm there will be an interesting talk about the revival of Jewish culture in Europe.
  Check this IHC link for more information and on-line registration.
• Jan. 21: looks like everything is all set for the showing of Schindler's List tonight at 6:30 in 1425 Phelps. The film is 3 hours, 17 minutes long and on 2 tapes. You might buzz Kerr Hall when the first tape is over, just to alert the operator that s/he needs to put in the next tape. The Kerr operator has my home phone number in case anything goes wrong.
• Jan. 21: Photocopies from Elinor Brecher's book about the List survivors are available outside my office door.
• Feb. 3: Sorry I've neglected the site for so long!
  FILM SHOWING: Europa, Europa (1 hour 55 mins.), Tuesday, 6:30pm in Phelps 1425.
  For Wednesday we will choose in class: either at 6:30 on a TV in HSSB 4041, or at 7pm from a big-screen projector in HSSB 1211.
• Feb. 3: The course reader is available at Alternative Copy in IV. A student reports that they ran out of copies today (Monday), but will make more on special request. I apologize for the poor service (and the price): I had good experience with them in the past, but it seems that things have changed.
  In any case, please try to read the first selection from the memoir on which Europa, Europa is based, for Feb. 4.