Facing History and Ourselves

People make choices. Choices make history. What factors lead people to make the choices they make? What are the inherent aspects of human beings that can result in either being perpetrators of evil, bystanders, or upstanders? To begin answering these questions, we “face history” by discussing human behavior in the Holocaust and in events leading up to the Holocaust.Throughout the semester, we also “face ourselves” by discussing what factors guide us in our choices today.