7th/8th Grade Holocaust Teaching Trunk Investigating the Holocaust: What Happened and Why? Contents Book Title Quantity Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl 5 Frank, Anne. Eds. Otto H Frank. and Mirjam Pressler. Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl. New York: Bantam Books, 1991. The diary of a young girl through the darkest times in our history. In her diary Anne documents her two years in hiding, her first love, and her secrets. (Nonfiction) Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation 1 Folman, Ari Survivors: Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation. Pantheon Books NY, 2018. For both young readers and adults it continues to capture the remarkable spirit of Anne Frank, who for a time survived the worst horror the modern world has seen—and who remained triumphantly and heartbreakingly human throughout her ordeal. (Nonfiction) 3 The Avengers: A Jewish War Story Cohen, Rich. The Avengers: A Jewish War Story. NY: Alfred Knopf, 2000. Abba Kovner, Vitka Kempner, Ruzka Korczak-comrades, lovers, friends. In the Lithuanian ghetto of Vilna, they were the heart of a breathtakingly courageous underground movement, and when the ghetto was liquidated, they fled to the forests and joined other partisans in continued sabotage and resistance. (Nonfiction) 2 The Book Thief Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief. New York: Picador, 2005. The story of a young orphaned girl named Liesel who learns the trials of Nazi Germany as her family shelters a Jewish boy. (Fiction) 1 Courage to Care Rittner, Carol and Sondra Myers, eds. Courage to Care. New York: New York University Press, 1986. Profiles of individuals who risked their lives and the lives of their families to save Jewish people during the Holocaust. (Nonfiction) Holocaust Center for Humanity | 7th/8th Grade Trunk | www.HolocaustCenterSeattle.org Book Title Quantity Devil’s Arithmetic 2 Yolen, Jane. Devil’s Arithmetic. New York: Puffin Books, 1988. Hannah, a 12 year old girl, is transported to a 1940’s Polish village during a Passover Seder. She experiences the very horrors that had embarrassed and annoyed her when her elders related their Holocaust stories. (Fiction) Friedrich 3 Richter, Hans Peter. Friedrich. New York: Puffin Books, 1961. Friedrich and his best friend were growing up in Germany in the early thirties. At first, Friedrich seemed to be more fortunate. His father was well respected and prosperous, while his friend’s father had no job. Then Hitler came to power and things began to change. Friedrich’s world was turned upside down – all because he was Jewish. (Fiction) Heroes of the Holocaust: True Stories of Rescues by Teens 3 Zullo, Allan and Bovsun, Mara. Heroes of the Holocaust: True Stories of Rescues by Teens. Compass Point Books, 2011. Maria Andzelm was a Catholic teenager whose family took in Jewish men in Nazi occupied Poland. Her story is one of five featured in this book of young people putting their lives on the line for others. (Nonfiction) Milkweed 2 Spinelli, Jerry. Milkweed NY: Scholastic Inc, 2004. He has no name, no home, no family and no background. He steals food, sleeps in the street and survives by not getting caught. He sleeps in a cellar with a band of boys who are just like him, who steal to stay alive and do their best to go unnoticed by the Jackboots. It is not safe to be a Jew, a Gypsy or a homeless orphan. The best thing to be is invisible. (Fiction) Other Victims 1 Friedman, Ina R. Other Victims: First–Person Stories of Non–Jews Persecuted by the Nazis, New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1960. Friedman has compiled first-person narratives of survival and heroism,. The stories show how the war machine singled out for persecution. (Nonfiction) Holocaust Center for Humanity | 7th/8th Grade Trunk | www.HolocaustCenterSeattle.org Book Title Quantity Parallel Journeys 3 Ayer, Eleanor. With Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck. Parallel Journeys. NY: Atheneum Books, 1995. A true story of a young boy growing up in Nazi Germany, and a young Jewish girl, also living in Nazi Germany. Alfons rose in leadership in the Hitler Youth while Helen’s family fled to Holland, only later to be captured and deported to Auschwitz. The two met in the 1980’s. (Nonfiction) Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust 3 Zullo, Allan. Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust. Scholastic Paperbacks, 2005. True stories of nine Jewish boys and girls whose lives were impacted by the Holocaust. (Nonfiction) Ten Thousand Children 1 Fox, Anne L., and Eva Abraham-Podietz. Ten Thousand Children. NJ: Behrman House Inc., 1999. True stories told by children who escaped the Holocaust on the Kindertransport. First person accounts. (Nonfiction) Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1 Bunting, Eve. Stephen Gammell. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust. PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1993. The animals in the clearing were content until the Terrible Things came, capturing all creatures with feathers. .. In this unique introduction to the Holocaust, Bunting encourages young children to stand up for what they think is right, without waiting for others to join them. (Fiction) The World Must Know 1 Berenbaum, Michael. The World Must Know. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1993. This book tells the history of the Holocaust using photos and documents obtained from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (Nonfiction) Yellow Star 3 Roy, Jennifer. Yellow Star. NY: Scholastic, 2006. The story, biographical and written in free verse, depicts life through the eyes of a young Jewish girl whose family was forced into the Łódź Ghetto in 1939 during World War II. Roy tells her aunt Syvia’s story, covering her life as she grows from four and a half to ten years old. (Nonfiction) Holocaust Center for Humanity | 7th/8th Grade Trunk | www.HolocaustCenterSeattle.org John Rock Photo Album - Unaccompanied Children 1 Passport 1 Piece of Blanket 1 Shoe 1 Star 1 Class Photo - Frieda Soury 1 Iron Cross 1 Holocaust Center for Humanity | 7th/8th Grade Trunk | www.HolocaustCenterSeattle.org Artifact Description Quantity Cigarette Cards 4 Boy Scout Card 1 Poster: Badges of Hate 1 Poster: Timeline 1 Photo Cards of Local Holocaust Survivors 14 Short biographies, including QR codes, of local Holocaust survivors (in envelope) featured in the Holocaust Center for Humanity’s core exhibit, and Survivor Encyclopedia Web page: https:// www.holocaustcenterseattle.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-survivors- in-washington Activity- Identification Cards (small binder) 1 binder Created by the USHMM. A full set of these cards, and additional identification cards are available here: https://www.ushmm.org/educators/teaching-materials/ identification-cards-and-personal-stories 3-ring binder containing resources, activities, and lesson 1 binder Curriculum Binder plans for the materials in the trunk. Holocaust Center for Humanity | 7th/8th Grade Trunk | www.HolocaustCenterSeattle.org Films Description Quantity The following films are available to watch online or on dvd by request: Heil Hitler: Confessions of a Hitler Youth https://youtu.be/JJ6umV7CVY8 I’m Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who lived Through the Holocaust https://youtu.be/E_cpvkIU6IY Porcelain Unicorn https://youtu.be/hRMcPJrWm-g The Short Life on Anne Frank https://youtu.be/7pM6VkZCz70 With My Own Eyes https://holocaustcenterseattle.org/with-my-own-eyes-film Holocaust Center for Humanity | 7th/8th Grade Trunk | www.HolocaustCenterSeattle.org .