Volunteer Learning Series: Citizenship, Identity, and Othering in the Nazi Camp System

(This was a session from earlier in the year that was cancelled due to weather.) The camp system was the heart of Nazi terror and control, and it eventually played a dominant role in the systematic murder of approximately six million Jewish people and an unknown number of non-Jewish people in the Holocaust. After Hitler was appointed chancellor on January 30, 1933, the first camps emerged within the following two months. What began as a central component to consolidating power and silencing opposition, the camp system grew and changed purpose over the years. Volunteers will examine Nazi camps through the lens of citizenship, identity, and othering through centering survivor stories and how those concepts informed prisoner experiences within the camps – both from perpetrators and from other imprisoned people.

This session will be at Am Shalom synagogue at 840 Vernon Ave., Glencoe, IL 60022, and will begin at 10 a.m. and will go through 12 p.m. Kosher refreshments will be provided.