The International Legacy of Anne Frank
Our Goals
This website is intended to reach the general public to emphasize the diversity of Holocaust education. The breadth of academic studies within this discipline is overwhelming and we hope to compress this information into a digestible website. This is also a great resource for Holocaust educators to use the resources we have explored during this course to use with their own students. We hope to ultimately show that learning about people's experiences from this time period, can help us gain a clear sense of the importance of Human Rights worldwide.
This semester, Spring 2015, at Brandeis University a class of 12 students under the fearless leadership of Professor Dawn Skorczewski took a course called The International Legacy of Anne Frank. This class explored how The Diary of Anne Frank has been represented in different media over time. We participated in an international digital learning environment with students from Amsterdam at the Vu University. This included short lectures, discussions, team projects, diary-writing, archival research and web tours.
This website is intended to reach the general public to emphasize the diversity of Holocaust education. The breadth of academic studies within this discipline is overwhelming and we hope to compress this information into a digestible website. This is also a great resource for Holocaust educators to use the resources we have explored during this course to use with their own students. We hope to ultimately show that learning about people's experiences from this time period, can help us gain a clear sense of the importance of Human Rights worldwide.
This semester, Spring 2015, at Brandeis University a class of 12 students under the fearless leadership of Professor Dawn Skorczewski took a course called The International Legacy of Anne Frank. This class explored how The Diary of Anne Frank has been represented in different media over time. We participated in an international digital learning environment with students from Amsterdam at the Vu University. This included short lectures, discussions, team projects, diary-writing, archival research and web tours.
Introduction
Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933 and soon began constructing a strong and unified Nazi party whose purpose was to eliminate all inferior races from Europe. These political ideologies led to the mass destruction of millions of people in what is called the Holocaust. Jews were the most prominent group to experience the violence and hatred of the Holocaust as over 6 million Jews were killed between 1940 and 1945. However, the hatred of the Nazi Party was targeted towards several other groups as well.
The Nazi Party systematically created concentration camps, which inflicted heinous and atrocious torture upon prisoners such as starvation, dehydration, subjection to severe weather, beatings, lack of sleep, and unsafe working conditions. Concentration camps were the site of death for many victims of the Holocaust, but many other victims fled the country or went into hiding for several years.
After the liberation of the concentration camps in 1945, thousands of incredibly sick and exhausted survivors began the long journey back to their homes to find their families and begin their new lives. Many moved away from Europe and started families and careers in other locations around the world.
We hope that through learning the Holocaust, we remember the millions of victims and the survivors today, who still live with these memories. Furthermore, we must recognize that acts of hatred and discrimination still exist today around the world. In an effort to "Never forget" the Holocaust, we must go one step further and work towards equal rights for all of humanity.
The Nazi Party systematically created concentration camps, which inflicted heinous and atrocious torture upon prisoners such as starvation, dehydration, subjection to severe weather, beatings, lack of sleep, and unsafe working conditions. Concentration camps were the site of death for many victims of the Holocaust, but many other victims fled the country or went into hiding for several years.
After the liberation of the concentration camps in 1945, thousands of incredibly sick and exhausted survivors began the long journey back to their homes to find their families and begin their new lives. Many moved away from Europe and started families and careers in other locations around the world.
We hope that through learning the Holocaust, we remember the millions of victims and the survivors today, who still live with these memories. Furthermore, we must recognize that acts of hatred and discrimination still exist today around the world. In an effort to "Never forget" the Holocaust, we must go one step further and work towards equal rights for all of humanity.