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discussion from the background material will include: The rise of the Nazi party. The road to World War II Why study the Holocaust The Holocaust in history (Other examples of persecution of the Jewish people) The unique tragedy of the Holocaust (What makes the Holocaust different from other acts of genocide) The scope of the Holocaust (ghettos, slave labor camps, concentration camps, death camps, number of people murdered during the Holocaust, number of Jews in Europe who survived etc.) 14. Students will be given a list of vocabulary words for each of the four sections of the book, as some of the words may not be familiar to them. Students will also receive a study guide for each section. 15. To assist in understanding the background information about what was happening in Germany, students will watch an excerpt from the DVD version of Into the Arms of Strangers (an Academy Award Winner for best documentary feature in 2000). The documentary is about the 10,000 children saved from the Nazi regime when the British government implemented a <strong>plan</strong> called “Kindertransport”, which allowed many children to leave the horrors of the Nazi regime and find temporary refuge within British families and hostels. The excerpt shows what it was like to be a Jewish child growing up in the shadow of the Nazi threat and how the children’s safe, familiar world was quickly changed. The excerpt includes first-hand testimonies of some of the people who were children at this time. 16. Writing journal activities for the excerpt from Into the Arms of Strangers: (Choose one) Write about a time when you departed from a place that was important to you. What and who made it difficult to leave Consider the lessons or values your parents, guardians, or friends have taught you throughout your life. What qualities in those people do you appreciate or take for granted How have they prepared you to face the world How might you offer a tribute to one of these individuals Using the stories you have heard in the film, reflect on the meaning of “home”. What parts of home can and cannot be taken with you In a poem, a story, or another medium of creative expression, write about the ways in which refugees in the past, as well as today, have attempted to create home in a new place. Imagine that you are one of the children selected to leave Nazi Germany and your parents and travel to a different country where you will not understand the language. How might you feel Either write a journal/diary entry you might make during your last week, or write a farewell letter to your parents. Note for Curriculum Compacting: If there are students who have already read the book Daniel’s Story, those students may have the option of reading another book about children of the Holocaust and creating a presentation for the class. Some titles include: NONFICTION Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport by J. Harris & D. Oppenheimer(Based on the documentary) The Holocaust Personal Accounts by D. Scrase & W. Mieder
Reflections of a Childhood Friend: Memories of Anne Frank by Alison L. Gold A Place to Hide edited by Jayne Pettit Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren The Hidden Children by Howard Greenfeld The Hidden Children: The Secret Survivors of the Holocaust by Jane Marks Hide and Seek by Ida Vos Hiding to Survive by Maxine Rosenberg Hiding from the Nazis by David A. Adler Ten Thousand Children: True Stories Told by Children Who escaped the Holocaust on the Kindertransport by Anne Fox & Eva Abraham-Podietz Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story by Lila Perl & Marion Blumenthal Lazan Joseph and Me: In the Days of the Holocaust by Judy Hoffman Escape or Die: True Stories of Young People Who Survived the Holocaust. By Ina Friedman Clara’s Story by Clara Isaacman Your Name Is Renee: Ruth Hartz’s Story As a Hidden Child in Nazi-Occupied France. Stacy Cretzmeyer Alicia’s Story by Alicia Appleman-Jurman We Are Witnesses: The Diaries of Five Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust by Jacob Boas I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson All but My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein Children in the Holocaust and World War II by Laurel Holliday Hannah Szenes: A Song of Light by Maxine Rose Schur Behind the Secret Window by Nelly S. Toll Dry Tears by Nechama Tec The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak edited by Alan Adelson Mischling, Second Degree by Ilse Koen FICTION Anna Is Still Here by Ida Vos Friedrich by Hans Peter Richter A Traitor Among Us by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk Upon the Head of a Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal The Devil in Vienna by Doris Orgel The Upstairs Room by Johanna de Leeuw Reiss Shadow of the Wall by Christa Laird
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