A podcast for Yom Hashoah, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Created by the students of Mercyhurst University' History & Memory of the Holocaust Class.
A Walk to Remember
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A podcast for Yom Hashoah, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Created by the students of Mercyhurst University' History & Memory of the Holocaust Class.
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April 5, 2021
"Black American Media & the Holocaust" by Garrett Freas
<p><strong>The responses of Black Americans to the Holocaust, and their coverage of it, are important parts of African American and Holocaust scholarship. Nevertheless, most of the work on this topic either draws largely or solely from two Black newspapers, </strong><strong>The Chicago Defender</strong><strong> and </strong><strong>The Pittsburgh Courier</strong><strong>, and fails to examine any regional or sectional differences in coverage and interpretation in these or other Black newspapers found around the country. In doing so, these works fail to acknowledge the significance of regional differences as a contribution to a group’s memory and interpretation of the Holocaust and by extension other genocides. In examining the differences among various Black newspapers, one can attempt to show the ways in which regional differences among African Americans in the U.S. contributed to the Black American coverage and interpretation of the Holocaust. From my analysis, and from the work of previous scholars, it is clear that Black media outlets across the country often made comparisons between Nazi Germany and the United States, particularly regarding racial ideologies and discriminatory processes. Nevertheless, these comparisons were not the same across the board, with Black news outlets from different areas of the country comparatively highlighting different forms of American oppression, whether they be state operated or extra-judicial. These variations seem, to some degree, to reflect different experiences of racism in different corners of the United States.</strong></p>
April 5, 2021
"Women of Ravensbrück" by Sydney Hitchcock
<p><strong>Perhaps there is no better place to look at how women experienced concentration camp imprisonment than by looking at the lives of the prisoners of Ravensbrück. The Ravensbrück concentration camp was an all-female world of terror, located north of Berlin in a remote region of Germany known as the Mecklenburg lake district. Natural beauty surrounded the camp, which was the intent of its planner Heinrich Himmler who "believed that the cleansing of German blood should begin close to nature." The women imprisoned at Ravensbrück during World War II came from more than thirty different countries and were there for political, religious, and racial reasons. As Hitler implemented the Final Solution and the Third Reich spread its reign of terror across Europe, the women at Ravensbrück felt its grip tighten on their lives. Those who survived portray in their memoirs and letters the strong will and determination necessary to bear the horrors inflicted upon them. These women's stories enrich the Holocaust master narrative, which has been told mainly from a male perspective until recently. Women used their unique qualities as women to survive life at Ravensbrück; they relied on their social instincts, resourcefulness, and nurturing skills to protect their humanity which gave them the strength to persevere.</strong></p>
April 5, 2021
"Disability, Eugenics, and Euthanasia in the Holocaust" by Mary Claire Cousins
<p><strong>In a chapter titled “Eugenics in Hitler’s Germany,” Robert N. Proctor opens by writing, “we like to think that medicine is a force for healing in the world, but we should also not forget that, in the wrong political climate, medicine can join with evil to produce monstrosities. Such was the case in the Nazi era.” Proctor then goes on to list the sterilization of disabled people as one of the “most horrific crimes of the Nazis,” along with “cruel medical experiments, pernicious racial theories, and industrial-scale murder.” While Jews are the most notable victims of the Holocaust, there were many others viewed by the Nazis as undesirable, including homosexuals, the </strong><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-nazi-euthanasia-t-4-program"><strong>physically and mentally disabled</strong></a><strong>, Roma, Poles and other Slavic people, </strong><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jehovah-s-witnesses-in-the-holocaust"><strong>Jehovah’s Witnesses</strong></a><strong>, and members of opposing political groups. The sterilization and/or killing of those with disabilities were “crimes committed in the guise of medicine.” However well-intentioned these practices may have started out, they clearly became tragic excuses to control the population and help promote the Aryan race.</strong></p>
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