Evaluating and Suggesting Holocaust Books for Children

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Evaluating and Suggesting Holocaust Books for
Children

• NJLA
• May 1, 2008

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• A 552-page book about Nazi Germany, narrated by
  Death

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Evaluation Strategies

• Criteria for non-fiction Books of
  information
• Accurate
• Engaging
• Well-written - clear, dynamic prose
• Visuals clear pictures, diagrams, maps

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Evaluation Strategies

• Criteria for non-fiction Books of
  information
• Authority of author
• Help of content specialist or expert advice
• Organized in a logical sequence
• Includes table of contents, index,
  glossary
• Documentation sources of information

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• Told in alternating chapters
• Story of Japanese Holocaust education center that
  receives artifacts and tries to find out about
  the owners
• Story of Hana Brady, Czech girl deported to
  Auschwitz whose suitcase is one of the artifacts

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Evaluation Strategies

• Criteria for fiction
• Plot
• Conflict
• Plot development
• Characterization
• Types
• Character development
• Authentic Voice

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Evaluation Strategies

• Criteria for fiction
• Point of View
• Setting integral to historical novels often
  functions to clarify the conflict in the story.
• Style/Literary Devices
• Theme

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Evaluation Strategies

• Holocaust books
• Make young readers think about their own lives

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Evaluation Strategies

• Holocaust books
• Make young readers think about their own lives
• Connect history with other accounts of what
  racism can do
• Dont exploit the violence or sensationalize
• Dont sentimentalize terrible situations
• Tell the truth

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• Facts of atrocity and genocide are hardly
  appropriate for small kids. It is easier for
  authors to tell young children about those who
  escaped the survivors and the rescuers.

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• Whats the point of desensitizing them or
  frightening them with depictions of bodies being
  plowed into mass graves. Theyre still children,
  for Gods sake!
• - Esme Raji Codell

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Every survivor has a story but not every
survivor is a storyteller
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• Time dissipates to shining ether the solid
  angularity of facts.
• - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Did not live with wolves
• Did not kill a German soldier in self-defense
• Did not travel four years looking for her parents
• Was never in the Warsaw Ghetto
• Was not Jewish

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K- 4 CurriculumCaring Makes a Difference

• Grades K-1 People are different and those
  differences make each of us special.
• Grades 2-3 Each person is strengthened and
  enriched by the differences they find and accept
  in others.
• Grade 4 It is important that people learn to
  work together and to respect each other so that
  we can avoid causing each other pain and
  suffering.

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But inside their hearts are just like yours,
whoever they are, wherever they are, all over the
world.
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• The Only One Club by Jane Naliboff

Im really glad everyones the only one of
something.
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She can be everything at the same time.
I love you any way you feel, no matter what you
do.
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• Pass on kindness to others

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A giraffe and a mouse who live together in the
forest think that each is better than the other,
until a fire threatens their home and they
discover that their differences can be assets
after all.
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Some strength was important, some intelligence as
well.
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• Everyone appreciates a kind act no matter how
  bad it smells.

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The Golden Rule by Ilene Cooper
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The Golden Rule by Ilene Cooper

• Christianity says You should love your neighbor
  as you love yourself.
• Judaism says What is hateful to you, do not do
  to your fellow humans.
• Islam says Hurt no one so that no one may hurt
  you.
• Hinduism says This is the sum of duty to do
  nothing to others which would cause them pain.
• Buddhism says Do not do to others what would
  hurt you.
• Shawnee Tribe says Do not kill or injure your
  neighbor, for it is not he or she that you
  injure you injure yourself.

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Who today still speaks of the annihilation of the
Armenians? - Adolph Hitler
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Curriculum UnitsPrejudice and Discrimination
The World Changes Rise of Nazism Life in the
Ghettos and Camps Hiding, Escape and
RescueResistance Survival, Liberation and
Legacy
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Prejudice and Discrimination
He was a little boy who did not know he was a
star. But thats what he was told. At first, he
was happy, he was proud. He thought it was nice
to be a star. But this star had too many
points.. Finally the night ended and the little
boy was able to go out.
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Prejudice and Discrimination
The Burning of the Books by Bertolt Brecht
When the Regime commanded that books with harmful
knowledge Should be publicly burned on all
sides Oxen were forced to drag cart loads of
books To the bonfires, a banished Writer, one of
the best, scanning the list of the Burned, was
shocked to find that his Books had been passed
over. He rushed to his desk On wings of wrath,
and wrote a letter to those in power. Burn me! He
wrote with flying pen, burn me. Havent my
books Always reported the truth? And here you
are Treating me like a liar! I command you Burn
me!
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The World Changes Rise of Nazism
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Life in the Ghettos and Camps
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Hiding, Escape and Rescue
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Anne Frank
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Anne Frank
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Anne Frank

• Diary as literature
• Personal story of family tensions, young love,
  dreams of growing up to be famous
• Triumph of the human spirit
• Gives a name and face to the Holocaust

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Janusz Korczak
Doctor Author Director of orphanage who led his
charges to the trains to Treblinka
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Janusz Korczak

• We all are brothers and sisters, children of the
  same earth. We have been preceded by generations
  that shared a common destiny for good and
  evilone long common path. We get light from the
  same sun and our crops are destroyed by the same
  hail. The same earth covers the bones of our
  forefathers. We have known more sorrow than joy,
  more tears than laughter, and neither you nor we
  bear the blame for this. Let us all work
  together, let us educate ourselves together.

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Hiding, Escape and Rescue
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Resistance
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Resistance
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Survival, Liberation and Legacy
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Survival, Liberation and Legacy
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Non-Jewish experiences during World War II
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Non-Jewish experiences during World War II
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Though War is Old It has not Become wise It will
not hesitate To destroy Things that Do not Belong
to it Things very Much older Than itself.
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I have not yet understood what really happened in
Bosnia. Why did people turn against one another,
why did neighbors suddenly start feeling
different, why did people make themselves as us
and them, why do horros of incredible scale
still happen in the twenty-first century?
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• If there is to be peace in the world, there must
  be peace in the heart.
• Lao Tzu