DARTMOUTH HILLEL

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE

Cross Cultural Service Project

BELARUS 2003

 


 

Class and Retreat Syllabus

April 1

First Meeting

 

April 8

Fragment from “Shoah” on Auschwitz (30 min)

Discussion of “Survival in Auschwitz” by Primo Levi

Read: “Survival in Auschwitz”

 

April 13

Screening of Schindler’s List (optional)

 

April 15

Lecture on the history of Belarus and Poland and discussion

Read: Information on Sopotskin and Indura

 

April 22

Holocaust lecture by Professor Susannah Heschel and discussion

 

April 29 (Holocaust Remembrance Day)

Yom Hashoah Service and Discussion

 

May 6

Discussion of “Ordinary Men” by Christopher Browning

Fragment from “Shoah” on Warsaw ghetto (30 min)

Read: “Ordinary Men”

 

May 10-11

Group retreat at Ritchie Smith Cabin and Moosilauke Lodge

 

May 13

Presentation on the culture of Poland and Belarus

 

May 20

Lesson of Russian/Polish language

 

May 24-25

Group retreat at Vermont Home


Detailed Project Segments

Poland

   Auschwitz-Birkenau

   Krakow

   Tykocin

   Warsaw

 

Homepage

 

Belarus

   Cemetery Restoration

   Homestays

   Grodno

   University Students

   Brest


Questions or Comments??

Please contact Ethan Levine at

ethan.levine@dartmouth.edu

or 5 Occom Ridge; Hanover, NH 03755


Created by Ethan Levine '03 Th'05