Instructions
You will read and reflect on the primary source account of the Holocaust.
Initial Post Requirements
Your initial post is due by Thursday at 11:59 P.M.
Follow-up Response Requirements
Your peer response is due by Saturday at 11:59 P.M.
Respond to at least one other student’s post.
Primary Source
B.F. was born in Poland. He and his family, as Jewish people, were sent to the Warsaw ghetto after Nazi Germany invaded Poland. He escaped but was recaptured and sent to Sobibor, an extermination camp on the border of Poland and Ukraine in which ~250,000 Jewish people were executed between 1942 and 1943. In 1943, he participated in a breakout with several hundred other Jewish prisoners. Of the approximately 300 Jewish prisoners who escaped, 60 survived to the end of the war. B.F. recounted his experiences at Sobibor in an interview recorded in 1945.
Recollections of the HolocaustDownload Recollections of the Holocaust
Prompt:
There are no direct or guided questions associated with this source. To offer such would be to trivialize this event.
Rather, I ask you to reflect on this reading, the content, and your feelings when reading this primary source.
Consider, if you wish, including your prior experience with topics surrounding the Holocaust and your perception of how the Holocaust is viewed by society as a whole now, ~80 years after it was perpetrated.
Please, treat this topic with the gravitas and weight it deserves.
Concerning AI use on this assignment: Given the nature of this content, I would humbly request, if you choose to utilize AI tools to support your writing process, that you choose to limit AI use for this assignment to editing only. We bear a responsibility, as humans, to confront the actions of those humans who perpetrated this event and those humans who remained silent and did not act to prevent this event sooner. It is not meant to be easy, and to avoid grappling with such content is to do a disservice to those like B.F.
