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Assessing The Impact Of Holocaust Education On Adolescents’ Civic Values: Experimental Evidence From Arkansas, Mathew Lee, Molly I. Beck

Education Reform Faculty and Graduate Students Publications

American adults overwhelmingly agree that the Holocaust should be taught in schools, yet few studies investigate the potential benefits of Holocaust education. We evaluate the impact of Holocaust education on several civic outcomes, including “upstander” efficacy (willingness to intervene on behalf of others), likelihood of exercising civil disobedience, empathy for the suffering of others, and tolerance of others with different values and lifestyles. We recruit students from two local high schools and randomize access to the Arkansas Holocaust Education Conference, where students have the chance to hear from a Holocaust survivor and to participate in breakout sessions with leading Holocaust …

Museum Websites And Restitution: Rediscovering Holocaust-Era Objects In The Digital Age, Gabriella Bloom

MA Theses

Under the Third Reich, Europe experienced one of the most far-reaching examples of plunder of cultural property in modern history. While the Allies succeeded in returning many objects and artworks towards the end of the war and initially following it, many objects remained missing and hidden. The late 1990s led to a resurgence of interest in Holocaust-Era looting, resulting in a rise of cases and litigation over previously plundered objects. As many looted artworks materialized in United States museums, museums began further researching their collections’ provenance and inputting this information online. Today, most major museums have a section of their …

On Writing And Righting History: The Stakes Of Holocaust Interpretation And Remembrance In Poland And The United States, Noa Gutow-Ellis

Honors Theses

This thesis explores the ways in which American Jews - and Americans more generally, by way of the Americanization of the Holocaust - have come to think about and understand Poland and how Poland has subsequently rejected their narratives. Historically, American Jewish cultural works have placed Poland as a geographic space, nation, and people at the center of stories of Jewish suffering in the Holocaust and World War II. In its quest to right and correct historical misunderstandings, this project looks at the ways Poland has worked to completely revise the historical narrative.

Through tracing historiographies of separateness between Jewish …

Interactions Of War: Exhibiting World War Ii And The Holocaust, Taylor Aspinwall

Theses and Dissertations

This paper discusses the use of interactive elements in museums that deal with difficult subject matter, such as war or genocide. This research involves interviews with museum personnel at the Columbus Museum in Columbus, Georgia, the National Infantry Museum in Columbus, Georgia, the Museum of History and Holocaust Education in Kennesaw, Georgia, and the World War II Home Front Museum in St. Simons Island, Georgia. This research also discusses the design of a potential exhibit using interactives about women in the resistance movement during Nazi occupation.

In Spite Of You, We Live On: A Commemorative Painting, Goldie Gross

Publications and Research

This painting is the product of a Yiddish language independent study with Professor Debra Caplan. It depicts a war portrait of Hitler with a stumbling stone inscribed with the words "אויף צו להכעיס דיר לעבן מיר נאך" (in spite of you, we live on) in the center of his face. It is accompanied by an explanation of the painting.

The Danish Resistance And Rescue Of The Jews Of Denmark: A 75th Anniversary Commemoration [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Center For Holocaust And Genocide Education.

Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education Documents

A poster announcing a series of events commemorating the efforts of the Danish resistance to save Danish Jews during the Holocaust.

11th Annual Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony In The Cedar Valley [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Center For Holocaust And Genocide Education.

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A poster announcing the 2017 Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony.

Days Of Holocaust Remembrance 2018 Events [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Center For Holocaust And Genocide Education.

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A poster announcing the 2018 Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony.

Private Tolkatchev At The Gates Of Hell: Majdanek And Auschwitz Liberated: Testimony Of An Artist [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Center For Holocaust And Genocide Education.

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A poster announcing the exhibition of reproductions of drawings done by a Soviet artist who took part in the liberation of Nazi concentration camps as part of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2018.

The Kapo On Film: Tragic Perpetrators And Imperfect Victims, Mark A. Drumbl

Scholarly Articles

The Nazis coerced and enlisted detainees into the administration of the labour and death camps. These detainees were called Kapos. The Kapos constitute a particularly contested, and at times tabooified, element of Holocaust remembrance. Some Kapos deployed their situational authority to ease the conditions of other prisoners, while others acted cruelly and committed abuse. This project explores treatment of the Kapo on film. This paper considers two films: Kapò (1959, directed by Pontecorvo, Italy) and Kapo (2000, directed by Setton, Israel). These two films vary in genre: Kapò (1959) is a feature fiction movie, whereas Kapo (2000) is a documentary. …

The Republican Race : Identity, Persecution, And Resistance In Jewish Correspondence From The Concentration Camps Of Occupied France, 1933-1945, Stacy Renee Veeder

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

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Conversation With A Holocaust Survivor [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Center For Holocaust And Genocide Education.

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A poster advertising a presentation by Peter Gorog on his experience growing up in Hungary during World War II.

10th Annual Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony In The Cedar Valley [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Center For Holocaust And Genocide Education.

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A poster announcing the 2016 Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony.

No Asylum: The Untold Chapter Of Anne Frank's Story [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Center For Holocaust And Genocide Education.

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A poster announcing the showing of the film No asylum : the untold chapter of Anne Frank's story. The film shows the attempts by Otto Frank to find sanctuary for his family.

Review Of Stone, The Liberation Of The Camps: The End Of The Holocaust And Its Aftermath,, Carol A. Leibiger

Faculty Publications

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9th Annual Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony In The Cedar Valley [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Center For Holocaust And Genocide Education.

Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education Documents

A poster announcing the 2015 Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony.

Christian Responses To Hitler: A Film Screening And Discussion [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Center For Holocaust And Genocide Education.

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A poster announcing a screening of the film "Theologians under Hitler" and two opportunities for discussion.

Stepping Beyond Nuremberg’S Halo: The Legacy Of The Supreme National Tribunal Of Poland, Mark A. Drumbl

Scholarly Articles

The Supreme National Tribunal of Poland (Najwyzszy Trybunal Narodowy (Tribunal)) operated from 1946 to 1948. It implemented the 1943 Moscow Declaration in the case of suspected Nazi war criminals. This article unpacks two of the Tribunal’s trials, that of Rudolph Hoess (Kommandant of Auschwitz (Oswiecim) and Amon Goeth (commander of the Krakow-Plaszow labour camp). Following an introduction, the article proceeds in four sections. Section 2 sets out the Tribunal’s provenance and background, offering a flavour of the politics and pressures that contoured (and co-opted) its activities so as to recover its place within the imagined spaces of international criminal accountability. …

Two Presentations By Patrick Hicks On The Commandant Of Lubizec: A Novel Of The Holocaust And Operation Reinhard, University Of Northern Iowa. Center For Holocaust And Genocide Education.

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A poster announcing two presentations by Patrick Hicks, one about his research for a novel about the Jewish Holocaust and the other a reading of passages and commentary of the novel.

8th Annual Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony In The Cedar Valley [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Center For Holocaust And Genocide Education.

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A poster announcing the 2014 Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony.

Never Again: Heeding The Warning Signs [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Center For Holocaust And Genocide Education.

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A poster announcing the 2013 Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony.

Visualizing Hate: Maus As Holocaust Literature, Geoffrey Daniel Curran

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this thesis was to investigate how Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus affected traditional classifications of Holocaust writings, specifically literary memoir. Genre studies use Holocaust writings especially those classified as "literary memoirs", to define a narrow group to exclusion of texts like Maus. If Maus was not 'allowed' to be defined as memoir then was it solely cast as fiction? To view it as fictional would have denied that Maus was a graphic novel which interlaces both received testimonial 'truth' and receptive 'truth'.

Among The Righteous: Film Screening And Panel Discussion [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Center For Holocaust And Genocide Education.

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A poster announcing the showing of the film Among the Righteous that covers the history of the Jewish people in North Africa during World War II.

Choosing To Act: Stories Of Rescue [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Center For Holocaust And Genocide Education.

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A poster announcing the 2012 Holocaust Remembrance ceremony.

Joyce Apsel On The Oxford Handbook Of Genocide Studies. Edited By Donald Bloxham & A. Dirk Moses. New York, Ny: Oxford University Press, 2010. 675pp., Joyce Apsel

Human Rights & Human Welfare

A review of:

The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies. Edited by Donald Bloxham & A. Dirk Moses. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2010. 675pp.

Justice And Accountability In The Face Of Genocide: What Have We Learned? [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Center For Holocaust And Genocide Education.

Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education Documents

A poster advertising the 2011 Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony.

Justice And Accountability In The Face Of Genocide: What Have We Learned? [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. Center For Holocaust And Genocide Education.

Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education Documents

A program of events at the 2011 Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony.

An Evening With Madame F: Performance By Claudia Stevens [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Center For Holocaust And Genocide Education.

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A poster announcing a performance of An Evening with Madame F. created and performed by Claudia Stevens.

Stories Of Freedom: What You Do Matters [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. Center For Holocaust And Genocide Education.

Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education Documents

A program of the events of the 2010 Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Stories Of Freedom: What You Do Matters [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Center For Holocaust And Genocide Education.

Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education Documents

A poster announcing the 2010 Holocaust Remembrance Day.