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I am the Director of Educational Technology at YBH in NJ. I have been doing a multimedia Holocaust project with my 8th graders for the past few years and have been wanting to both learn more for myself and to incorporate into my classes.

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How the Holocaust is portrayed in general such as movies, print even in artwork and how people respond and think about what they see, hear and read.

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Is it a good thing or bad thing to have these fictional accounts shared? Can damage be done or does it help explain the Holocaust in ways different types of people can understand and then encourage them to learn more.

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I am a Trustee at the Memorial Scrolls Trust, a London based charity.  MST has a collection of 1,564 Czech Torah scrolls which survived the Shoah, 1,400 have been spread around the world at shuls, schools and museums to keep the memory of the lost Czech communities alive.  I am a frequent lecturer and Holocaust educator.  Prior to this, I had a long career as a money manager on Wall Street.

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So many aspects of our current cultural identity were influenced by the Holocaust. For example, literature, our understanding of trauma, or our discussions of religion and faith. Importantly, many of these aspects of culture also helped shape the developments and trajectory of the tragic event such as the use of propaganda and mass media, scientific development and the warping of societal norms.

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How did a modern society in the 20th century allow the Holocaust to happen and have we learned a lesson from it?

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I'm the Head of the Humanities Department at an independent high school in the Australian town of Alice Springs. It's a small town of 25,000 right in the center of the country surrounded by desert. I teach a Holocaust unit to students in Year 10 and 11.  In January this year I took part in an education program at Vad Vashem in Israel for a group of Australian teachers

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I'm the Head of the Humanities Department at an independent high school in the Australian town of Alice Springs. It's a small town of 25,000 right in the center of the country surrounded by desert. I teach a Holocaust unit to students in Year 10 and 11.  In January this year I took part in an education program at Vad Vashem in Israel for a group of Australian teachers

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Justin Zammit

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My understanding of cultural responses to the Holocaust deals with how the Holocaust is both remembered, taught and presented.

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My understanding of cultural responses to the Holocaust deals with how the Holocaust is both remembered, taught and presented.

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Justin Zammit

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I'm interested in looking at the ways modern media can be classed as Cultural Responses - I used the instagram resource Eva's story in the classroom and am interested t see what others think about this. 

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I'm interested in looking at the ways modern media can be classed as Cultural Responses - I used the instagram resource Eva's story in the classroom and am interested t see what others think about this. 

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Justin Zammit

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My background is in Literature and Early Childhood Education.
At present I am parenting my four grandchildren aged 8,6,2 and 1 year.  Prior to that I worked for Casa De Los Ninos, a non profit that provides trauma informed intervention for young children.

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My understanding about Cultural Responses to the Holocaust come from the books and film representations and the stories I have been told from survivors that I have been able to speak with over the years.

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I'm interested in learning how we can teach future generations about the Holocaust.

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Mercedes azancot

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I think the course will provide different points of view about the Holocaust and how is accepted , understood and transmitted in our generation. Today, more than ever ,the different aspects how to educate and to spread the horrors and the aftermath of the Holocaust is primordial in order to spread the importance of the Holocaust and to make this Genocide not to be never forgotten

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I am a son of 2 holocaust survivors. My father still tells his own story, but I realize he will not be able to do that forever. He was a physician and has told his story to a "Medicine in the Holocaust" course at Wright State University Medical School in Dayton, Ohio, where I grew up. In this day of  zoom classes, I have been assisting to lead discussions in that class in the past few months. I would like to expand on this kind of work as I transition towards retirement from my current job as an Anesthesiologist.

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I knew nothing about this topic before, and found the subject intriguing.

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I would like to learn as much as I can about the Holocaust, with a specific interest in the parts the physicians had in planning and carrying out the atrocities. I'd like to learn the psychology that allowed the healers of society to become leaders of such evil acts.

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The first insight I have learned is how different disciplines had effects on the Holocaust and the disciplines themselves were altered by the Holocaust, and these effects can be very long lasting.

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The Cultural responses to the Holocaust are interpreted in different ways driven by perception, symbolic meaning, and personal outlook. The variety of authors' backgrounds, from survivors to those who deny it, each using different mediums such as literature, poems, songs, movies, theaters, to depict their perception. One of the challenges is to turn the tragedy into an artistic field that can have a double expression: on the one side, making it more affordable to speak about the suffering and non-sense of the German nation's cruelty, and on the other hand,  to transform the genocide into a fictional movies. Therefore, this course provides an interesting analysis of the different ways this topic can be viewed, having the narrative of even the deniers in focus.

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I feel an obligation and a responsibility to dig deep into the Holocaust. Not only the historical temporal and geographical aspects, but also the domino effect explaining the causes and evolution of these anti-Semitic ideas. Understanding the version of events, culture and the spiral that brought on mass genocide, specially to know about the cultural responses to the Holocaust of the  Sephardic communities such as  Salonika, Yugoslavia, Rhodes, and the former Habsburg Island as well Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia that were under the Nazi oppression

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My name is Mercedes Azancot. Due to my husband's dedication in being a community rabbi, our family of seven children traveled the world. My job permitted me to teach and created relations with a very diverse and heterogenic Jewish population. I've been teaching Jewish tradition and Torah values for the past 30 years. For the past 10 years, I've been a fifth grade Hebrew teacher at Flatbush Yeshiva in Brooklyn. I have an M.A in Spanish Literature, and finishing my second MA in Jewish history, pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Sephardic history and heritage of the Megorashim and their descendants.

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My background is in fine art and graphic design, but I have spent the better part of the last 17 years as a middle school math teacher. I am a first generation American. My entire upbringing was shaped by my survivor grandparents (one side lived with us 6 months of the year) and the impact on my parents. I live in NJ with my husband (who has American born grandparents and great grandparents) and our 4 children ranging in age from 4 years old to 16 years old.

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As the grandchild of survivors, raised in part by them, I definitely had a glimpse of the cultural response, but generally from the survivor side. As a product of the American day-school system, I have been given a historiographical foundation. As an art student, I studied sculpture and monument design.

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I feel that my current (prior to the class) understanding and exposure to the cultural responses was a mile wide and an inch deep and I would very much like to strengthen and solidify that foundation and continue to build.

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This was a fascinating course. Having a Whatsapp was a great way to share information and really create a close knit class. The Canvas platform was a great way to share information and was put together great (thank you Rivki!)

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The Holocaust touched and altered so many areas of our cultural fabric around the world.  Looking in depth at each one through the lens of scholarly debates deepened my understanding of our society.

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I think this course had open for me a variety of fields and ways how to teach and educate about the Holocaust. Every field pros and cons. I learned  how to look through the different alternatives with a deep and critical eye.

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Through the semester this course taught in a very variety way, counting with an amazing group of professionals who shared with us their mastery. Although at the beginning was a little bit confused, after  I saw a lot of improvement on the organization, classes and schedule. Nevertheless, for me had been a very intensive course with a lot of quantity of assignments , a little bit too much for a  graduated semester course.

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The lense  through which I have viewed or known anything about the Holocaust was a particularly specific one- that of the traumatized Polish survivor. Being able to study, read, listen to and view an incredibly wide variety of scholarly work (including the critical) gave me a significantly more well rounded basis of knowledge for understanding the global impact of the Holocaust

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The lense  through which I have viewed or known anything about the Holocaust was a particularly specific one- that of the traumatized Polish survivor. Being able to study, read, listen to and view an incredibly wide variety of scholarly work (including the critical) gave me a significantly more well rounded basis of knowledge for understanding the global impact of the Holocaust

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Sari Sheinfeld

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My name is Chaim Gottesman. I attended Ner Israel Yeshiva in Baltimore where I received smicha (ordination). I was a teacher and administrator in a Jewish high school and then went into business. After several decades I sold the business and we spend about 5-6 months of the year in Jeerusalem (pre-Covid). While in Israel I am able to teach at various seminaries for American girls. I continue to do so now via Zoom. My parents were both survivors that had spent times in the camps. Hardly spoke about it though. Wish to teach Holocaust related subjects as well.

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Actually very little. Only the little I heard from my parents and the parents of most of my friends. The class has been an eye opener for me

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I would want  to hear and read more from Rabbis and other religious leaders and survivors regarding their views and perspectives.

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That there is great damage and disservice to Jews and others by those that misrepresent the Holocaust

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Hardly used the online technology. However,  I was "blown away" by Shay's breadth and depth of knowledge on this and related subjects.

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The platform on which the course was built was truly remarkable. Rivki and Shay- your collaboration and hours of back end preparation was incredibly fruitful. The course materials and extension  were impeccably curated and organized on Canvas. Each module was able to encapsulate  all aspects of the unit from pre to post session materials as well as the engagement (assignment) component as well. The sources and interviews came from an incredibly wide network of scholarship and when pooled together for each module they provided a depth and breadth unable to be reached with each component alone- only with their compilation. You utilized all parts of Canvas to include the uploading and grading of assignments and their feedback to the use of weighted averages and that was very much appreciated. The WhatsApp group fostered our community and allowed for us to have an “unofficial” line of communication. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

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Thank you all for a great class - one of the brightest groups of people I have ever had a chance to work with. It was you, with your refelctions, comments and genuine interest in the subject that made this course so special. Thank you also, Rivki, for making this content highly accessibly and digestible for an on-line course format. You did an amazing job. 

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Thank you all for a great class - one of the brightest groups of people I have ever had a chance to work with. It was you, with your refelctions, comments and genuine interest in the subject that made this course so special. Thank you also, Rivki, for making this content highly accessibly and digestible for an on-line course format. You did an amazing job. 

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Shay