Members: £85
Non-members: £105
Concessions: £20 (call the office 020 8340 3343)
Dates 2025: 17 January – 21 February (6 weeks)
Understanding the Holocaust: Key Problems in Holocaust History
The Holocaust is one of the best-known, but least understood events in history. This course aims to improve participants’ understanding by exploring key issues and problems. Though taking a chronological approach, the course is not a straightforward history, but rather an exploration of key moments and debates that build to provide students with a greater understanding. Six two-hour sessions will be based around primary and secondary sources provided each week by the tutor, with a short lecture component to set out key information and questions. Students are encouraged to read as much or as little as they feel called to, though suggestions for preparatory reading will be given ahead of each seminar.
Week 1 Pre-war Jewish Life and the Anti-Semitism of the Holocaust
Week 2 The Resistible Rise of the Nazi Party, 1919- 1934
Week 3 The Intensification of Hate, 1933-1939
Week 4 The Decision to Launch the Final Solution, 1941-1942
Week 5 Facing the Extreme – Perpetrator Behaviour and Jewish Resistance
Week 6 Counting the Cost – Numbers, Voices, and Memory
