Tp be honest Kay, I couldn't show it at the elementary level. Have any of you read, "Hannah's suitcase'. I think that is even hard for the kids and it's a true story of a child. At our school they show Schindler's list to the 8th graders and I think that is too much. Has anyone seen the short film in which Sarah Jessia Parker featured as a ten year old about the persecution of the jews. Joahim and Rachel. It's very powerful and sometimes I wonder if I should show that. S
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Kuenzl-Stenerson Kay Sent: Mon 4/28/2008 9:14 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Mosaic Digest, Vol 20, Issue 25 I did not feel it was too graphic. It does show some photographs of the camp and the bony skeleton like people who were liberated. She does say that when she first came to the camp that she saw some dead children. And then there is a photograph of two skeletal dead children. That is about as graphic as it gets. The emphasis of the video is on forgiveness and it shows Eva sharing that with many, many people. The experiments are not described in detail. They do say that they injected one twin with a disease to use the other twin as a control group. Eva's sister was injected with something that caused her kidneys not to grow. Eva later donated a kidney to her sister. The forgiveness journey that Eva took started with trying to find Dr. Mengele's notes so the doctors would know what Eva's sister was given in a chance that she could be treated. The nature of the holocaust is not pretty, but this is done in very good taste. It also shows middle schoolers listening to Eva speak. The emotion in this documentary is much stronger than the photographs. The message of forgiving is for the victim and Eva's positive role modeling is powerful. You might want to show just parts of the program. It would have value doing that also. Kay Kuenzl-Stenerson Literacy Coach Merrill Middle School "We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say, 'It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.' Then there are those, who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes." ~ Fred Rogers ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 4/25/2008 11:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Mosaic Digest, Vol 20, Issue 25 Send Mosaic mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Mosaic digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Holocaust resource (Diane Baker) 2. Re: Holocaust resource (Dr. Heidi Maier) 3. Re: just right books? (Kitty Ainsworth) 4. Re: just right books? (Mary Manges) 5. Re: just right books? (HERBERT Suzanne) 6. Re: just right books? (HERBERT Suzanne) 7. Re: just right books? (ljackson) 8. Re: just right books? 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Do you think it is appropriate for fifth graders? diane ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Kuenzl-Stenerson Kay Sent: Thu 4/24/2008 11:00 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [MOSAIC] Holocaust resource Last night, I just watched a Documentary that I got through Netflix titled Forgiving Dr. Mengele. This is about a surviving twin who as a victim found peace by forgiving. I thought it was so powerful because Eva Kor looks like anyone's grandma. The story of what happens to twins at Auschwitz is told, but it also links what happened to real people who have had to live with it and to now. Eva has a Holocaust museum in Terre Haute, Indiana. And it was firebombed so kids can see that things still happen. But the theme that I thought was most important was how forgiveness is frees the victim and that good can come from evil You might want to check it out. Eva also has a book, titled below. Click below and it will take you to Amazon. Forgiving Dr. Mengele <http://oasd-mail/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.amazon.com/Forgiving-Dr-Mengele-Cheri-Pugh/dp/B000MAFXQO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8%26s=dvd%26qid=1209047308%26sr=8-2> Echoes from Auschwitz: Dr. Mengele's Twins: The story of Eva and Miriam Mozes <http://oasd-mail/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.amazon.com/Echoes-Auschwitz-Mengeles-Twins-Miriam/dp/0964380765/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8%26s=books%26qid=1209047308%26sr=8-3> by Eva Moses Kor and Mary Wright (Paperback) Kay Kuenzl-Stenerson Literacy Coach Merrill Middle School "We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say, 'It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.' Then there are those, who see the need and respond. 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