Holocaust and Human Behavior
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| "History Has to be Told by Eyewitnesses": Bernard Gotfryd | Video Clip | October 3, 2011 |
| "I Had Come Face to Face with Evil": Leon Bass Talks about his Experiences of Racism | Video Clip | April 6, 2011 |
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"We Were Not Supposed to Think" After the first set of trials ended, the United States held twelve others at Nuremberg. These trials were authorized by multinational agreements and based on international law. Telford Taylor, who served in the United States Army Intelligence during the war and was transferred to Justice Jackson’s staff during the first trials, supervised the new proceedings. He said of them, “The judgments of these subsequent trials added enormously to the body and the living reality of international penal law. |
Publication Readings | May 11, 2010 |
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86-Year-Old SS Killer Faces Murder Charges (Der Speigel, April 14, 2008) The article, "86-Year-Old SS Killer Faces Murder Charges," reports on what could be the last war crimes trial to take place in Germany. In this case, an elderly SS soldier might be put on trial for shooting three unarmed Dutch civilians in 1944. |
Facing Today | May 14, 2008 |
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A Commandant's View In an interview with journalist Gitta Sereny after his arrest in Brazil in 1971 and subsequent trial, Franz Stangl, the commandant of the death camp at Sobibor and later at Treblinka, responded to questions. “You’ve been telling me about your routines,” I said to him. “But how did you feel? Was there anything you enjoyed, you felt good about?” A. “It was interesting to me to find out who was cheating,” he |
Publication Readings | July 9, 2010 |
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A Commandant’s View In an interview with journalist Gitta Sereny after his arrest in Brazil in 1971 and subsequent trial, Franz Stangl, the commandant of the death camp at Sobibor and later at Treblinka, responded to questions. |
Publication Readings | March 9, 2010 |
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A Day in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Birthday Trip in Hell 30 minutes, black & white |
Library Resource | December 15, 2009 |
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A Discussion with Elie Wiesel 30 minutes, color View The "In" Group |
Library Resource | December 15, 2009 |
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A German Dump Holds Shards of a Terrible Night
November 9 is the 70th anniversary of
what the Nazi's euphemistically called Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken
Glass. The article "A German Dump Holds Shards of a Terrible Night"
describes how researchers recently discovered that a dump 30
miles outside of Berlin, contains physical evidences of what many Holocaust
scholars believe was "the beginning of the end" for Jews in Germany. |
Facing Today | October 30, 2008 |
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A Journey with Purpose The film follows nine-year-old Joshua on a journey with his grandfather (Opa) Martin Becker, a Holocaust survivor, back to Auschwitz where he was imprisoned at age nine for four years. Joshua presents his Opa's story to convey the importance of using the past to prevent injustice in the future. |
Library Resource | May 18, 2012 |
