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An experience that sometimes intersects experiences of Anne Frank. |
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Teachers Note: Fred Spiegel's memoir Once the Acacias Bloomed: Memories of a Childhood Lost deepens students' understanding of the world Anne Frank describes in her Diary, which ends just before she and her family were arrested in the Netherlands, detained and transported to the Westerbork concentration camp in August 1944. We do not know directly of her experiences there or in the Auschwitz or Bergen-Belsen camps.
Fred vividly describes the Westerbork and Bergen-Belson experience from the perspective of an adolescent and his return to the Netherlands as a Jewish refugee in 1945.
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A survivor saved by hero/rescuer Raoul Wallenberg! |
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In Sunshine and In Shadow: We Remember Them vividly portrays the beautiful life of a young girl, Vera,
and her family prior to 1939 and the darkness of the years during the Holocaust and then once again the sunshine after 1945. Students will
learn about family, perpetrators, heroes ó especially Raoul Wallenberg, and about the consequences of the evils of bias, bigotry, and
prejudice. Teachers using the memoir and the photographs will be able to assist students to leam about the Holocaust and specifically in
New Jersey to meet the legislative educational mandate to teach about Holocaust and genocide.
Dr. Paul B.Winkler, Executive Director
New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education
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A survivor of six concentration camps! |
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Teacher's may want to use Elizabeth Blum Goldstein's story Of a Comb, a Prayer Book, Sugar Cubes & Lice as a companion piece to Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl.
In both books, the girls were sisters and teenagers, making it easier for students to relate to them. Other similarities were in their journeys. Anne & her sister Margot journeyed through three concentration camps, while Elizabeth and her sister Ibolya's journeys were through six.
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A Belgium Gentile resister whose family hid Jews from the Nazis. |
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Teachers Note: Both Arlette Michaelis and Anne Frank were teenagers during the Holocaust. Students will see the similarities
between Arlette and her family's work hiding and bringing food and suppies to Jews in Belgium from 1940-1944 -- to the rescue work of
Miep Gles, who helped the Frank family while they were hiding in the Netherlands.
In her memoir Beyond the Ouija Board Arlette describes the creation of the hiding place -- a false bookcase hinged to the
wall that disguised the door to Arlette's brother' room where Jews were hidden.
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