Course Outline

Holocaust & Resistance Studies

For grades 10-12, and college

	Beth Dutton
	Olde Windsor Village, F 103
	Windsor, Vermont 05089

	Telephone: 802-674-6592
	Fax: 802-674-9802
E-Mail: Beth_Dutton@Windsorvegs.together.org -or- BDutton640@aol.com

Introduction

The following course outline has been developed over a period of seven years of teaching the Holocaust and Resistance Studies Course at Windsor High School, at the Claremont, New Hampshire Adult Education Center, and at the Holocaust Institute for Youth conducted by the Parents, Teachers, and Students for Social Responsibility, Inc., under the direction of Dr. Glenn Hawkes at the Vermont Technical College in Randolph, Vermont in 1996.

I have studied and written about the Holocaust for more than thirty years, and I have been the fortunate recipient of a Fellowship from the American Gathering of Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust, the Jewish Labor Committee, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the American Federation of Teachers for a summer seminar in which other recipients and I traveled and studied in Poland and in Israel. In both places we had the enormous benefit of studying under some of the foremost historians of the Holocaust in the world. The list is a long one.

I have also been able to take part in conferences and workshops for teachers of the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, of which I am a member and a donor.

I have been careful to use resource materials from unimpeachable sources, including Yad Vashem in Israel and the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, and by this time I have an extensive library of both books and videos on the subject of the Holocaust, all of which I continue to add to, to read, and to review. I do wish to state up front, however, that I am passionate on the subject of the Holocaust, and am not always as wholly objective an observer or reporter, much as I try to be, as I might wish to be.

Any errors, over-statements, or over-simplifications are altogether mine and not those of the sources which I suggest be used in lesson plans. I would welcome any suggestions for corrections, additions, deletions, etc., that the educators who share this course outline wish to offer me.

I am also glad to share with any of you ideas for reading about the Holocaust, beyond the materials I've here suggested be used in the classrooms.

The outline you have here is meant as a guide and can be adjusted to suit your individual needs. Some of the "phases" will take much longer to cover than others, and some of the books to be read and videos to be seen will require a great deal of discussion and review by you and your students. Ten weeks is not too long a time in which to cover all that is here. If you do not have as much time as that to teach the course, it should not be difficult to pick and choose what you think would be best for your students in the time you do have.

Beth Dutton