my favs

United Nations Division of Sustainable Development http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/ documents, reports, links, conferences, etc.

Sustainable Development Gateway http://www.sdgateway.net/ links to organizations, reports, etc.

Understanding the world today https://sites.google.com/site/gsocialchange/ This is about global social change

Rudy Rummel's Freedom, Democracy, Peace site. http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/

Developement Gateway Communities http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ Their aim is to reduce poverty and promote sustainable development. This site has news, discussion, announcements.

Marina DeBris, artist with a cause, to raise awareness of ocean pollution http://www.washedup.us/

Free resources on program evaluation and social research methods https://sites.google.com/site/gsocialchange/

Simon Letch is a nationally recognized, award winning, political illustrator, based in Australia, who's work is also used for educational purposes.

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Mr Letch currently illustrates for The Sydney Morning Herald.[1][2][3].

Mr. Letch's illustrations are also used in a variety of other news sources, such as The Age[4][5][6], the Examiner[7], The Canberra Times[8], the South Coast Register[9], The Newcastle Herald[10], and the Business Review Weekly[11]

Mr. Letch has been named as one of the year's best illustrators 4 times by the National Museum of Australia (NMA)[12][13][14][15]. The Hawkesbury City Council has also listed Mr. Letch as one of Australia's 14 most acclaimed illustrators[16]. The .M Contemporary also awarded Mr. Letch the People's Choice Award..[17] Mr. Letch is known for his humorous approach to popular culture.[18]

Mr. Letch's illustrations are also used by government organizations in educational lesson plans[19][20][21], and by public health or welfare organizations or their members[22][23][24][25]


The Holocaust

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The wikipedia entry on the Holocaust currently (4/8/2021) says that the Holocaust started in 1941. However, all of these sources say the Holocaust started in 1933. I put these in the talk section of the Holocaust wikipedia page, but the editors seem to ignore these sources.


  • This page for the Army War College page says "Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi Party, led by Adolf Hitler, carried out the systematic persecution and murder of Europe’s Jews. This genocide is now known as the Holocaust." https://www.armywarcollege.edu/news/article/1762
  • This Holocaust historical overview page from the government of Israel says "To say that the Holocaust of European Jewry (1933-1945)" ... https://www.knesset.gov.il/shoah/eng/ehashoah.htm It does say that 1941 was when "Systematic genocide of the Jewish people became official Nazi policy"
  • This book review on "Debates on the Holocaust", in reviewing three scholarly books, says " All three also identify the relevant period as 1933–45, that is, they identify the entire period of the Nazi regime with its destructive anti-Jewish policies, not limiting ‘the Holocaust’ to the comprehensive murder campaign of the Jews since 1941." https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/1160



Here is my proposed revision of the section "Definition". First, I present the proposed revision. Then I list the sources, just author names, books or articles. Last, I list extended descriptions of the sources and authors, showing where they describe the years of the Holocaust.

REVISION

Holocaust historians commonly define the Holocaust as the genocide of the European Jews, along with millions of non-Jews, by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933, when Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, and 1945. Victims of the Holocaust era include those the Nazis viewed as inherently inferior (chiefly Slavs, the Roma, and the disabled), and those targeted because of their beliefs or behavior (such as Jehovah's Witnesses, communists, and homosexuals).[34] Peter Hayes writes that the persecution of these groups was less consistent than that of the Jews; for example, the Nazis' treatment of the Slavs consisted of "enslavement and gradual attrition", while some Slavs were favored (Hayes lists Bulgarians, Croats, Slovaks and some Ukrainians).[23] Against this, Hitler regarded the Jews as what Dan Stone calls "a Gegenrasse: a 'counter-race' ... not really human at all".[d]

SOURCES

Colls, Caroline Sturdy. Holocaust Archaeologies: Approaches and Future Directions. 2015. Springer. Cowan, Paula and Maitles, Henry. Understanding and Teaching Holocaust Education. Sage. 2016 Dean, Martin. Robbing the Jews. The Confiscation of Jewish Property in the Holocaust, 1933-1945. Cambridge University Press. 2008. Marilyn Harran, Dieter Kuntz, Russell Lemons, Robert A. Michael, Keith Pickus, John K. Roth. The Holocaust Chronicle. 2000. Publications International, Ltd. https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/history_books/1/ Hartmann R. (2018) Tourism to Memorial Sites of the Holocaust. In: R. Stone P., Hartmann R., Seaton T., Sharpley R., White L. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47566-4_20 Kucia, Marek. The Europeanization of Holocaust Memory and Eastern Europe. East European Politics and Societies and Cultures Volume 30 Number 1. February 2016 97–119. 2015 Sage Publications 10.1177/0888325415599195 Lefkovitz, Eliot, "The Holocaust". Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership. https://www.spertus.edu/holocaust

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION OF SOURCES

Lefkovitz, Eliot, "The Holocaust". Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership. https://www.spertus.edu/holocaust (note: I'm not sure of the date of this article. According to his bio page, "Dr. Lefkovitz has published studies on modern Jewish history, Jewish education, and Holocaust survivors. He serves as a historical consultant for Holocaust related films and theatrical portrayals, serves as an interviewer for survivor oral histories, and presents often on aspects of Holocaust history." https://www.spertus.edu/people/faculty/elliot-lefkovitz)


Colls, Caroline Sturdy. Holocaust Archaeologies: Approaches and Future Directions. 2015. Springer. Says "The Holocaust is also considered to be broad in temporal scope, spanning from the Nazi's rise to power in 1933 until the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945" https://books.google.com/books?id=_3LdBgAAQBAJ&dq=holocaust+1933&lr=&source=gbs_navlinks_s https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=_3LdBgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&dq=holocaust+1933&ots=LamxQGnN1r&sig=ST3AjlIcFclUlMecicYFhjUTAq0#v=onepage&q=rise to power in1933&f=false Also, the introduction, including the statement above, is here http://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/2675/9/Holocaust%20Archaeologies%20AAM%20Chapter%201.pdf

Dean, Martin. Robbing the Jews. The Confiscation of Jewish Property in the Holocaust, 1933-1945. Cambridge University Press. 2008. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/enterprise-and-society/article/abs/martin-dean-robbing-the-jews-the-confiscation-of-jewish-property-in-the-holocaust-19331945-cambridge-university-press2008-437-pp-isbn-9780521888257-6800-cloth-isbn-9780521129053-2899-paper/59C7033CF0F05F69FC7517E6B69DFEDD also here https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/51809176/Robbing_the_Jews.pdf?1487179667=&response-content-disposition=inline;+filename=Robbing_the_Jews_The_Confiscation_of_Jew.pdf&Expires=1618068880&Signature=V0iBPfBRadHxmDbzKka7Q9mXHp-uICJgCsi~-P9pYFIK9r9koRIwXTib-KavkATanxMNaRJk8NsKWrLVINJEHSG5vGyfEGFJTZIcoC76UbG8iNrFuQtOXWnZfCTTGsuWzZ2EKldfM4rLCpbU-c8VIL1gLPY9SKAnbuPIIhAF4NFxuAqR0NQnR8uT3foT7r-YBpZZrk60pl9jyNwHYBCQMU-fWHyowGPBNtIpD10uyVjIkxLQSVtyhLKrV9m-QpX~Sr1YZJ7BVly~kOdIDRFvrwjhFi0DQ3yRqQhqfoLjbcSXKA~IfexX8ap10SV6jRQFvjHF4DJnVbtEbKUKOIjc1g__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA


Cowan, Paula and Maitles, Henry. Understanding and Teaching Holocaust Education. Sage. 2016 Says on page 6, "Because nazi discrimination against the Jews began with Hitler's accession to power in January 1933, many historians consider this the start fo the Holocaust era." https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=-8SCDQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=holocaust+1933&ots=k2lOey1DyD&sig=q0khZoHcglRgXvNfdNlqstET_hw#v=onepage&q=began%20was%201933&f=false


Marilyn Harran, Dieter Kuntz, Russell Lemons, Robert A. Michael, Keith Pickus, John K. Roth. The Holocaust Chronicle. 2000. Publications International, Ltd. https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/history_books/1/ The complete full-text of a seminal book for Holocaust studies, The Holocaust Chronicle. The site contains every word of the main text, as well as the index and all of the images from the print edition. The information within was gathered and fact-checked by top Holocaust scholars, and covers everything 1933-1945, beginning with the restrictive laws passed when Hitler took power to the deaths of at least six million Jews, Gypsies, Freemasons, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, prisoners of war, Communists, and others.


Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945. Volume I: Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps and Subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA). https://www.ushmm.org/research/publications/encyclopedia-camps-ghettos General Editor: Geoffrey P. Megargee According to wikipedia, "Geoffrey P. Megargee (November 4, 1959 – August 1, 2020) was an American historian and author who specialized in World War II military history and the history of the Holocaust. He served as the project director and editor-in-chief for the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945 produced by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Megargee's work on the German High Command (the OKW) won the 2001 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_P._Megargee


Hartmann R. (2018) Tourism to Memorial Sites of the Holocaust. In: R. Stone P., Hartmann R., Seaton T., Sharpley R., White L. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47566-4_20 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-47566-4_20 "Few historical periods in human history are so fatally associated with the destruction of human lives as Hitler’s ‘Third Reich’. Historic places honouring the victims of National Socialistic Germany form a wide and expanding network of heritage sites in Europe. Most of the places where the horrific events occurred during 1933–1945 have been broadly denoted as Holocaust memorial sites in the remembrance of the six million Jews who died, and the many other ethnic, religious, social, and political groups which were subjected to persecution." Hartman is a professor at the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, at teh University of Colorado, Denver. Among his areas of expertise are Europe and Geography of Tourism. Among his publications are Hartmann, Rudi. "Places with a Disconcerting Past: Issues and Trends in Holocaust Tourism," invited article In EuropeNow, Sept 6, 2017, Issue 10, pp. 6 – 12. https://www.europenowjournal.org/2017/09/05/places-with-a-disconcerting-past-issues-and-trends-in-holocaust-tourism/ and Horror and Human Tragedy Revisited: The Management of Sites of Atrocities for Tourism, Rudi Hartmann, Co-Editor, jointly with Gregory Ashworth, New York: CognizantCommunications Corp., 226 pp, 2005.


Kucia, Marek. The Europeanization of Holocaust Memory and Eastern Europe. East European Politics and Societies and Cultures Volume 30 Number 1. February 2016 97–119. 2015 Sage Publications 10.1177/0888325415599195 http://eeps.sagepub.com hosted at http://online.sagepub.com The article starts with this: More than seventy years since it happened, the Holocaust—“the state-sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945” I think the citation would be to here https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=903733 But the paper is available here https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/53125064.pdf The author bio says this: Marek Kucia is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and Jean Monnet Lecturer at the Centre for European Studies. In the academic year 2013 -14 he was also Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre for European Studies of Lund University


Michael Gray, a specialist in Holocaust education,[29] offers three definitions of the Holocaust: (a) "the persecution and murder of Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945", which includes Kristallnacht in 1938; (b) "the systematic mass murder of the Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators between 1941 and 1945", which recognizes the German policy shift in 1941 toward extermination; and (c) "the persecution and murder of various groups by the Nazi regime and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945", which fails to recognize that the European Jews were targeted for annihilation. NOTE that 2 of these three definitions have the Holocaust as 1933-1945.

Helen Pitt

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Helen Pitt is an Australian journalist working in the Sydney Morning Herald and an award winning author.[26]

Pitt began her career in journalism in 1986. Pitt also worked as a reporter in the Franch based TV channel Euronews. Pitt's book The House[27] won the 2018 Walkley Book Award.[28] The House has also received numerous critical responses. [29][30] Ross Fitzgerald writes a review for The Australian, "In the writer’s capable hands this adds up to a very Scandinavian, yet antipodean, story of Shakespearean dimensions."[31]


Pitt conducted a master class about book length journalism for the Walkley[32] and has been a guest speaker numerous times about the book.[33][34][35][36][37]

One of the people Pitt interviewed for the book was Joseph, or Joe Bertony, the man who made the mathematical calculations which made the Sydney Opera House sails possible.[38][39]

Pitt also was a guest on Women of Influence[40] and a moderator on a panel about ethics and journalism[41] and a participant on another panel on the ethics of journalism[42] at the Byron Bay Writers Festival.

References

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  2. ^ "Gallery of illustrations by Sydney Morning Herald artist, Simon Letch". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  3. ^ Murphy, Damien (23 January 2016). "The Great Emu War". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  4. ^ "ABC TV targets youth". The Age. The Age. 28 July 2006. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  5. ^ Aly, Waleed (5 February 2016). "Nauru: How long can we keep lying to ourselves?". The Age. The Age. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  6. ^ Proctor, Julie (26 July 2015). "The toughest question of all: why is Australia falling behind in maths?". The Age. The Age. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  7. ^ Junker, Ute (24 April 2015). "Ten etiquette rules for travellers". The Examiner. The Examiner. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  8. ^ Kenny, Mark (19 June 2015). "Climate change: the policy that broke Australia's polity". Canberra Times. Canberra Times. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  9. ^ Sheehan, Paul (19 August 2013). "How covert union stays disciplined". The South Coast Register. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  10. ^ Branley, Alison (27 October 2012). "Long wait to see public dentist". The Newcastle Herald. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  11. ^ Bleby, Michael (22 November 2012). "Managing the workforce as Boomers head for the exit". Business Review Weekly. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  12. ^ "Behind the lines. The years best cartoons, 2007". National Museum of Australia. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  13. ^ "Behind the lines. The years best cartoons, 2008". National Museum of Australia. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  14. ^ "Behind the lines. The years best cartoons, 2009". National Museum of Australia. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  15. ^ "Behind the lines. The years best cartoons, 2010". National Museum of Australia. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  16. ^ "Cartoons and illustrations from the Fairfax News Room". Hawkesbury City Council > Services > Places & Facilities > Library Museum Gallery > Gallery > Exhibitions > 2013. Hawkesbury City Council. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  17. ^ "People's Choice Award". .M Contemporary. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  18. ^ "Cartoons by Simon Letch". Media Man. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  19. ^ "'Stop' cartoon by Simon Letch, 2007". National Museum Australia, Collections. National Museum Australia. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  20. ^ "Reading between the lines. Developing the skills to analyze political cartoons". National Museum Australia. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  21. ^ "Cartoon Capers, Teacher's Guide" (PDF). Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Victoria State Government.
  22. ^ Farrow, Maree. "Educating Australians About Dementia Risk Reduction" (PDF). IFA 10th Global Conference on Ageing – Melbourne, Australia, May 3-6, 2010. International Federation on Ageing. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  23. ^ Cooper, C. "Mind your Mind to Reduce Your Risk of Dementia". Alzheimer's Australia 2009 Conference. Alzheimer's Australia. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
  24. ^ "Knocking Heads: What Makes One Man Attack Another". IF Foundation. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  25. ^ Cribb, Julian. "Time to end our deadly diet". Eating disorder and obesity conference. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  26. ^ Foundation, Walkey (5 June 2022). "Meet the 2022 Our Watch Fellows". The Walkley Foundation. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  27. ^ "The House The dramatic story of the Sydney Opera House and the people who made it". Allen And Unwin Book Publishers. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  28. ^ "Helen Pitt "The House" Walkley Book Award". Walkleys. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  29. ^ Salvo, Natalie. "Book Review: Helen Pitt's The House is an exhilarating look at the Opera House's colourful & dramatic history". The AuReview. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  30. ^ Fitzgerald, Ross. "The House By Helen Pitt dramatises Opera House birth". The Australian. The Australian. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  31. ^ Fitzgerald, Ross (6 October 2018). "The House By Helen Pitt dramatises Opera House birth". The Australian. The Australian. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  32. ^ "Watch on demand: Walkley Masterclass, Book-length Journalism with Helen Pitt". The Walkley Foundation. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
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  34. ^ "The Sydney Opera House: Its History & Its People – Helen Pitt". The Sydney Institute. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  35. ^ "History Talk: The House by Helen Pitt". Randwick City Library. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  36. ^ Green, Jonathan. "The House By Jonathan Green on Blueprint For Living". ABC National Radio. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
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  38. ^ Nagesh, Ashitha (12 April 2019). "Joseph Bertony: The spy who helped mastermind the Sydney Opera House". BBC News. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  39. ^ Bradley, Jonathan. "The engineering that turned the Sydney Opera House from an idea into an icon". Create Digital. Engineers Australia. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  40. ^ "Women Of Influence - Helen Pitt". Women of Influence. Apple. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  41. ^ "Ethics, Democracy and Journalism A panel discussion with award-winning journalists". Insights: Critical Thinking and Ethics. Newington College. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  42. ^ "Unpacking modern politics at Byron Writers Festival 2019". Byron Writers Festival. Retrieved 5 June 2022.