The year-long program, taught over three semesters in English, offers courses in the history of World War II and Nazi Germany; Nazi policy of extermination and the Final Solution; Polish Jewry in the interwar period; social history of the family, women and children in the Holocaust period; psychological aspects of Holocaust trauma; anthropology of memory, trauma and commemoration; international la
w and genocide; representations of the Holocaust in the European novel and in European cinema and more. Students will be trained in relevant Eastern European languages, essential for conducting research on the Holocaust period; and will participate in workshops and seminars that will teach research techniques such as interview, testimony, photography and video analysis techniques as well as guided work in archives. A unique aspect of the program is cooperation with museums and archives in Israel and abroad, such as Yad Vashem and the Ghetto Fighter's House museum in Israel, the Fritz Bauer Institute in Germany and the Polish Academy in Warsaw to facilitate research based on primary sources.
