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Developing a GIS-Enabled Museum Learning System: An In-Depth Study of the German Proficiency for Mass Murder and Logistics Leading to the First Train From the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka II

Johnson, Kurt Eugene
http://orcid.org/0009-0008-1100-824X
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1721156273700849

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2024, Doctor of Philosophy, Miami University, Educational Leadership.
This work is a GIS curriculum study and learning system implementation of the first train from the Warsaw ghetto to the extermination camp, Treblinka II, on July 22, 1942. This was part of Nazi Germany’s “Final Solution”, the last stage of the Holocaust, the deliberate, planned, mass murder of European Jews. Educational research has shown that it is not effective for students to only hear or read about traumatic historical events. For such an emotionally intense and controversial subject as the extermination camps in the Holocaust, students need to engage their higher order learning skills. GIS enhanced learning has been shown to develop those higher order learning skills. This research study and GIS learning system on the first train from the Warsaw ghetto to the extermination camp, Treblinka II, in July 1942 includes a history of the Nazi design and capacity building of extermination camps, a historiographic review of controversial themes of the Holocaust, a study of pedagogical methods and learning systems relating to controversial topics, and the Holocaust specifically, and the design, creation and implementation of a computer based, GIS enabled, museum learning system that tells this story. This case is significant as it is the first train of many from the teeming Warsaw ghetto of 400,000 to the newly opened Treblinka II camp where 7,400 were taken to their death that day and was the beginning of over 700,000 killed at this camp alone. This learning system is suggested as a pedagogical method for deeper study of the Holocaust and other similar traumatic topics.
Kate Rousmaniere (Committee Chair)
Erik Jensen (Committee Member)
Mila Ganeva (Committee Member)
Scott Campbell (Committee Member)
Jim Kiper (Committee Member)
356 p.
Computer Science; Education; Geographic Information Science; Germanic Literature; History; Pedagogy
Learning System; GIS; Holocaust; Treblinka; Extermination Camp; Pedagogy; Hearts and Minds; Slippery Slope; Ordinary Men; Willing Executioners; Transportation; Trains; Reichbahn; Ostbahn; Controversial Topics; Self Silencing; Containers; Cloud; CMS; Database; Leaflet; Story Teller

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  • Johnson, K. E. (2024). Developing a GIS-Enabled Museum Learning System: An In-Depth Study of the German Proficiency for Mass Murder and Logistics Leading to the First Train From the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka II [Doctoral dissertation, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1721156273700849

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Johnson, Kurt. Developing a GIS-Enabled Museum Learning System: An In-Depth Study of the German Proficiency for Mass Murder and Logistics Leading to the First Train From the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka II . 2024. Miami University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1721156273700849.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Johnson, Kurt. "Developing a GIS-Enabled Museum Learning System: An In-Depth Study of the German Proficiency for Mass Murder and Logistics Leading to the First Train From the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka II ." Doctoral dissertation, Miami University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1721156273700849

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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