Mrs pinchup, that list is so helpful I can't even begin to tell you! After seeing those book titles my eyes just lit up! I was trying to put together a brief list for my own presentation, but just couldn't come up with those good books. That was a big help. Hope I can reciprocate with my own help. We have a big staff of very intelligent and knowledgeable librarians, so we would love to be in touch.
Regards Yeshaya From: Hasafran <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chava Pinchuck via Hasafran Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2019 12:15 PM To: Heidi Rabinowitz <[email protected]> Cc: marjorie ingall <[email protected]>; Hasafran <[email protected]>; Rachel Kamin (home) <[email protected]>; Susan Kusel <[email protected]>; Elissa Gershowitz <[email protected]>; Rebecca Levitan <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Schooling educators about the Holocaust Hi, This list is from some presentations I gave a while ago, but I think they are still relevant: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - 10th grade and up Rutka's Notebook - 10th grade and up T4 by Anne Clare LeZotte - 9th and up Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy - 8th and up Emil and Karl by Yankev Glatshteyn and Jeffrey Shandler - 9th and up *Nicholas Winton's Lottery of Life by Matej Minac and Peter A. Rafaeli - 9th and up **Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust by Alexandra Zapruder Adult Book for Teen Readers (most likely 11th and 12 grade) ***The Girl in the Green Sweater by Krystyna Chiger and Daniel Paisner Tropical Zion by Allen Wells and Dominican Haven by Marian A. Kaplan - about German Jews sent to farm in the Dominican Republic ****Defiance by Nechama Tec *****Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay *Video available - Nicholas Winton and the Power of Good. This clip is very powerful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKkgO06bAZk. He passed away in 2015 at the age of 106. ** MTV made a the movie, I'm Still Here, based on the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_cpvkIU6IY ***FIlm In Darkness is based on the book. It won an Academy Award in 2012 for Best Foreign Film. The green sweater is part of the collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: https://www.ushmm.org/collections/the-museums-collections/curators-corner/a-cherished-object-kristine-kerens-green-sweater ****Film available (starring Daniel Craig) ***** Film available (heard it was not so good) This bibliography is a little dated, but I like the way it was organized: http://yellowstarfoundation.org/bibliography/bibliography.htm Shabbat Shalom, Chava On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 1:09 AM Heidi Rabinowitz <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi everybody. I'm sure you've heard about the principal of a public high school in Boca Raton (down the street from my library) who told parents that he couldn't say the Holocaust was factual history. Thank goodness they are not renewing his contract. The Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County put out a statement that they will be working with the county to ensure proper Holocaust education. I sent them a note, as a local librarian and a representative of AJL, offering help with identifying quality Holocaust books. I'd appreciate your help in putting together a list of top notch Holocaust books (both fiction and non) for high schoolers. I'd like to share this list with the Federation, and actually I think this would be a useful thing for AJL to publish on our blog and offer to school districts everywhere. If you have suggestions, please email me at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>, and give me: 1. Title 2. Author 3. Grades for which book is appropriate Thanks, Heidi Rabinowitz
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