This week we draw our second run of the #MOOC to a close, & would like to take some time to reflect on some of the successes.
Firstly, we were delighted at the international reach of the MOOC & being able to network with teachers from every inhabited continent! 1/5 RT @soper_mr
We have now had over 3,415 teachers from across the world as participants on the #MOOC, in partnership with @yadvashem! We are so pleased that the Centre’s research & resources has been able to reach such a huge number of teachers in the #globalclassroom 2/5 RT
Centre staff @hmccord78 & @soper_mr joined @yadvashem colleagues @Sandrachinos & Asaf to teach on the course, joining lively conversations on fundamental questions of Holocaust history & pedagogy. 3/5 RT
In this run of the course, we included new steps addressing the issues teachers faced with rising #antisemitism, sharing resources & approaches to support this. It was powerful to hear from teachers across the planet about their commitment to combat antisemitism in education. 4/5
Lastly, we were most delighted to read the positive feedback & reviews from participants, who stressed the impact of the learning & resources on their classroom practice. You can read them here: futurelearn.com/courses/holoca… 5/5 RT @FutureLearn
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OTD in April 1943 the Warsaw ghetto uprising began. When German troops and auxiliaries entered the ghetto to deport the remaining c.60,000 inhabitants they found themselves in what appeared to be a deserted space.
But once it was far enough inside the Germans were ambushed. 1/8
Jewish resistors, led by Mordechai Anielewitz-who had gone into hiding on discovering the German plan in advance-attacked with flaming missiles. Isolated & unprepared, the German force had no choice but to retreat with embarrassment. This set a pattern for the days to come. 2/8
Humiliated & increasingly frustrated, the Germans changed tactics. Under the command of SS Major Stroop a new approach was employed, with assault squads targeting key buildings in the ghetto & then setting them ablaze before withdrawing. Learn more: 3/8encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…
OTD in 1942 life for the inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto took a perilous turn. At 10am Herman Höfle, a leading Nazi in occupied Poland, met with the Jewish Council. They were instructed to issue a decree, which Höfle dictated. The decree was to announce a new initiative. 1/15 RT
According to the opening words of the decree 'all Jewish persons living in Warsaw, regardless of age & sex, will be resettled in the East'. Deportees were allowed to take 15kg of property & food for 3 days. The process was to begin just an hour later, at 11am. 2/15
The decree indicated that some people were to be exempted from deportation, including among others those used for labour by a German company, working for the Jewish Council or Police, & hospital staff. For everyone else, the intention was 'resettlement'. 3/15
Thanks to @HolocaustMuseum we are able to share Friedrich-Paul von Groszheim's story. In 1937 he was among 230 men in Lübeck arrested by SS under Nazi-revised criminal code, Paragraph 175.
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'I was imprisoned for 10 months...In 1938 I was re-arrested, humiliated, & tortured. The Nazis finally released me, but only on the condition that I agree to be castrated. I submitted to the operation.' 2/4
'Because of the nature of my operation, I was rejected as "physically unfit" when I came up for military service in 1940. In 1943 I was arrested again... The Nazis imprisoned me as a political prisoner in... Neuengamme concentration camp'. 3/4
OTD in April 1943 the #WarsawGhettoUprising began. When German troops & auxiliaries entered the ghetto to deport the remaining c.60,000 inhabitants they found themselves in what appeared to be a deserted space. Then once far enough inside, the German force was ambushed. 1/7
Jewish resistors, led by Mordechai Anielewitz, who'd gone into hiding on discovering the German plan in advance - attacked with flaming missiles. Isolated & unprepared, the German force had no choice but to retreat with embarrassment. This set a pattern for the days to come. 2/7
Humiliated & increasingly frustrated, the Germans changed their tactics. Under the command of SS Major Stroop a new approach was employed, with assault squads targeting key ghetto buildings & then setting them ablaze before withdrawing.
Learn more: encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…
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On #MigrantsDay consider exploring w/students the complex history of HMT Empire #Windrush. The story of this ship - now so iconic in British culture & society - begins not in 1948, but in Hamburg in 1930. Then known as #MonteRosa, the ship was originally a cruise ship...1/4 RT
...which, on occasions, visited London. Repurposed for military means during WW2, the ship was used at one point to transport Norwegian Jews to the continental mainland, for deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau. After being seized by the British in 1945 the ship was renamed... 2/4
...the #Windrush in 1946. Today this complicated history isn't common knowledge. Yet the story of poses timeless Qs: how & why people move (& are moved) in time & space; what we remember & what we forget; & how difficult histories overlap & intersect w/each other. 3/4