Part One of The Holocaust Narrative provides participants with an overview of the e-learning course, along with a general introduction to the subject of the Holocaust. It explores the diversity of Jewish life in pre-war Europe and the implications of the Nazis’ rise to power. It also introduces participants to the various forms of persecution experienced by Jewish people in the years before the Second World War.

Image: The Gold family from Esslingen, Germany, 1924. (USHMM)

Part Two details the experience of life during the Holocaust. You will study the forced identification and segregation of Jewish people, as well as life in the ghettos. Part Two also considers the significance of the Einsatzgruppen (killing squads) and the consequences of the Wannsee Conference.

Image: Selection of Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944. (USHMM)

Part Three covers the end of the Second World War and the difficulties faced by Jewish people during this time. Participants are asked to consider other genocides of the 20th century, particularly in light of modern denial and distortion of the Holocaust.

Image: A group of Holocaust survivors from Zawierce, Poland, at a memorial reunion in Munich, 1948. (USHMM)