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Michlalah offers courses in Holocaust research and education as part of bachelor's and graduate-level studies. On completion of a five-course program the student is granted the college's certification as a specialist in Holocaust education. There is a great demand for these courses on the part of Michlalah students and teachers.
Courses list:
Introduction to the Holocaust
The roots of Nazism, the period between World War I and II, German Jewry in the 1930s, the outbreak of the war, and the stages of the Final Solution
Methods in Holocaust Education and Development of Teaching Materials
The challenges of Holocaust education; curricula and study units developed in Israel and abroad; use of multimedia, films, pictures, and maps in Holocaust
education; and development of study units
Jewish Leadership during the Holocaust
Spiritual centers in Poland and Lithuania between World War I and II, Jewish leadership between the wars-the politicization of Jewish life, the Nazi
occupation and policy vis-a-vis the leaders, the Judenrat, spiritual leadership in
the ghettos, alternative leadership: welfare organizations and the resistance, the
survivors organization (Sh'erit ha-P'letah)-leaders from among the survivors
Rescue Efforts
Difficulties of rescue efforts during the Holocaust; analysis of specific rescue
efforts, such as the rescue of children, rescue by consuls, and rescue through
negotiation with the Nazis
The Survivors (Sh'erit ha-P'letah):
From Destruction to Construction
The formation of Sh'erit ha-P'letah and displaced-persons' camps, difficulties in
resuming normal life, postwar anti-Semitism, retrieval of hidden children,
Beriha, the struggle for immigration to Palestine, spiritual recovery
The Last Million - The Holocaust in Hungary
Hungarian Jewry on the eve of the Holocaust, in the early years of the war and during the Holocaust; rescue efforts in Hungary; rabbinical leadership
Faith in Times of Distress: Philosophical Issues
Coping with suffering, reward and punishment according to Jewish sources, and questions of faith during the Holocaust
Behind the Iron Curtain
The Holocaust and Soviet Jewry: Soviet Jewry in the wake of the Communist revolution and the erection of the Iron Curtain, the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact and
the flight of refugees eastward, Jews in the Soviet occupation zone, the Nazi
occupation, Jews in Siberia and Bukhara, Holocaust remembrance in the USSR
Words and Symbols
The Holocaust in literature: literature by survivors and the second generation, the Holocaust experience in literature, childhood during the Holocaust, ghettos and
camps, the memories, the impact of the Holocaust on the second generation
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