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Max Michelson
A View from Inside the Holocaust
Max Michelson
Outline
Lecture I. Introduction
My background and overview of my Holocaust experience
Jewish life pre-
Soviet occupation of Latvia
Lecture II. Life under the Nazis
Germany’s assault on the Soviet Union
The Riga Ghetto
Lecture III. Being a prisoner in the camps
Concentration and slave labor camps
Humiliation, degradation, and dehumanization
Lecture IV. Living with death
Corruption
Interaction with our jailers
The emotional impact of the killings
Lecture V. Faith and religion
Community among Jewish prisoners
Faith
Religious explications of the Holocaust
Lecture VI. Survival
Thinking of escape
Liberation
The role of chance in survival
Lecture VII. Displaced Person
Soviet hospitals and camps
DP camps in the American & British zones
Lecture VIII. Readjustment to civilized society
Readjustment to a civil & law-
In New York
A productive life after the Holocaust
Lecture IX. Thinking about the Holocaust
Lessons learned
The Holocaust and the recurring genocides