320 Unit IV: Hiding, Escape, and Rescue Unit Goal: Students will develop an understanding of the extensive efforts made by the Jews and other victims of the Nazis to hide and to escape from their grasp and the vital role of the rescuer in saving many lives. Performance Objectives Teaching/Learning Strategies and Activities Instructional Materials/Resources Students will be able to: A. Teacher note: Opening essay for the 1. Essay on Hiding, Escape, and Rescue 1. Demonstrate an understanding and teacher to provide background information included in guide. recognition of the influence that our values may be used with the students at teacher and beliefs have on the behavior of each discretion. of us. B. Hiding and Escape 1. Jacob's Rescue by Malka Drucker and 2. Describe and recognize positive and 1. Obtain and read book with students Michael Halperin negative types of human behavior. and complete activities in the lesson for Jacob's Rescue by Malka Drucker 2. Hide and Seek by Ida Voss and Daniel's 3. Understand that behavior reflects the and Michael Halperin. Story by Carol Matas provide opportunties choices and decisions that each person to examine other experiences with fictional makes. 2. Uri Orlev's The Island on Bird Street. materials of approximately same reading Reading and lesson included provides level. 4. Demonstrate an understanding and an opportunity to explore the 3. Uri Orlev's Island on Bird Street. Excerpt appreciation for the complexity of the loneliness and difficulties of hiding included in guide. problems involved in attempting to run successfully and the need for human 4. Excerpt from Robinson Crusoe for and/or hide from the Nazis and their contact. If possible, obtain the novel descriptions of emotions, etc. collaborators. and read entire story. Obtain copies of some of the books read by Alex and 5. Demonstrate an understanding of the read excerpts of them in class. consequences of the choices we make Discuss their fascination for an 11- with the impact on others and ourselves in year-old boy and their availability. terms of human pain vs. human happiness, and human construction vs. 3. Twenty and Ten by Claire Buchet 5. Claire Buchet Bishops's Twenty and Ten. human destruction. Bishop is a readable story appropriate 6. PBS Wonderworks video production of for fifth grade. View the video "Miracle "Miracle at Moreaux." 6. Demonstrate an understanding and at Moreaux" and compare and contrast appreciation for the importance of moral the book and the video program. What responsibility in making choices. themes and issues are consistent despite the changes in the video story? 7. Review and explain the behavior associated with each of the following: 321 Teaching/Learning Strategies and Activities Instruction Materials and Resources Performance Objectives Students will be able to: 4. Reading and lesson from Nelly S. Toll's 8. Behind the Secret Window by Nelly S. collaborator, perpetrator, rescuer. autobiographical story Behind the Toll. Also, Touch Wood by Renee Hano Secret Window. If possible, in addition Roth for further reading on hiding theme. to the excerpt, obtain the book so that the students may also examine some of the artwork the author produced while in 9. Video: "Nightmare: The Story of hiding and since that time. The author Joachim and Rachel." Fictional story of is a New Jersey resident. Examine the a brother and sister who survive by timeline included in the lesson and running, hiding, and escaping. Well-done place Nelly Toll's story within the production includes use of flashback tactic. context of the timeline. 5. Place to Hide: True Stories of 10. Reading about Miep Gies selected from Holocaust Rescue by Jayne Petit. Place to Hide: True Stories of Holocaust Complete readings and lesson in guide. Rescue by Jayne Petit. Book has a number of other admirable and 6.Story of Bernard Rotmil, a reading courageous stories in it. selected from The Hidden Children of the Holocaust by Esther Kustanowitz. 11. The Hidden Children of the Holocaust: There are a number of other harrowing Teens Who Hid from the Nazis by Esther true life stories included and worth Kustanowitz. reading aloud in class or silently and individually. Discuss the separation and loss of family and problems of reuniting those who survived. 8. Identify and discuss the difficulties of 7. "Escape to Shanghai" by Norbert 12. "Escape to Shanghai" by Norbert Seiden. leaving almost everything behind to go to a Seiden. An autobiographical manuscript Story from his manuscript and lesson new and strange place. of a man who is now a New Jersey included. An additional suggested reading resident. Shanghai was one of the few on the story of refugees in Shanghai is places that kept its doors open to Jewish Ghetto Shanghai by Evelyn Pike Rubin. refugees. See the lesson for other suggested resources for the teacher and students. 322 Performance Objectives Teaching/Learning Strategies and Activities Instructional Materials and Resources Students will be able to: 9. Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary, A Photographic Remembrance. This 13. Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary, A volume by van der Rol and Verhoeven Photographic Remembrance by Ruud has some excellent photographs as Van der Rol and Rian Verhoeven well as quotes from Anne's diary and commentary. Obtain book to use with lesson. C. Hiding and Rescue 9. Identify the variety of strategies and tactics 1. "Jews of Greece and the Holocaust." 1. "Jews of Greece" includes story of Dr. employed by the rescuers to hide and to This story includes the autobiographical Yolanda Avram Willis. Reading in guide. assist the targets of Nazi oppression and account of Dr. Yolanda Avram Willis as destruction. told to Alberta Lindsey. Study the map as well as completing the reading and 10. Identify and discuss the characteristics lesson for a better understanding of the common to those who were willing to take complexity of the geography as well as the risk of being a rescuer. the population demographics. 11. Demonstrate an understanding and 2. "Gandino Blooms in Israel" is the story 2. "Gandino Blooms in Israel" by Silvana appreciation for the many risks assumed of Marina Lowi Zinn who was born in Galizzi from the newspaper article in the by a rescuer Milano, Italy. During the Holocaust, L'Eco Di Begamo. Marina, her mother, and her brother sought shelter in Gandino where 3. Video: "The Assissi Underground." Righteous Gentiles hid them. Read the See videography for information. selection and complete the discussion guide and selected activities. 3. "In Honor of My Righteous Rescuers." An autobiographical account by New 3. "In Honor of My Righteous Rescuers" by Jersey resident and retired educator Cecile Seiden. Reading in guide. Cecile Seiden. Author was born in Antwerp, Belgium. A much-loved and only child whose family life is disrupted Teaching/Learning Strategies and Activities 323 Performance Objectives Instructional Materials and Resources Students will be able to: by the Nazi efforts to roundup and transport Jews to ghettos and camps. 4. Gay Block and Malka Drucker have 4. Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in written a book with a collection of true the Holocaust by Gay Block and Malka stories called Rescuers: Portraits of Drucker. No reading in lesson. Moral Courage in the Holocaust. Lesson and activities included in guide. Obtain the book or an excerpt to read in class. 5. Darkness Over Denmark by Ellen 5. Darkness Over Denmark by Ellen Levine. Levine is the dramatic story of the Lesson in guide. Book needed for reading. rescue of all but 50 of approximately 8000 Danish Jews by their fellow- countrymen. Lesson in guide. A good resource to use in conjunction with novel Number the Stars. 6. Forging Freedom by Hudson 6.Hudson Talbott's story of Jaap Penraat's Talbott. A true story of the heroism of heroism told in Forging Freedom. Reading Jaap Penraat in Amsterdam, Holland. included in guide. Mr. Penraat now lives in the United States. Reading and lesson in guide. 7. Ken Mochizuki story of the real-life 8. Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara 12. Demonstrate an understanding of the Hero and Japanese diplomat Chiune Story by Ken Mochizuki. Visas for Life courage shown by a handful of diplomats Sugihara. Passage to Freedom: The by Yukiko Sugihara is an excellent teacher who saved thousands of Jews, some in Sugihara Story. Lesson in guide. resource to use with this book. defiance of their governments' orders. 8. "Aristides de Sousa Mendes:Unsung 9. "Aristides de Sousa Mendes: Unsung Hero Hero of the Holocaust" by Henri Zvi of the Holocaust" by Henri Zvi Deutsch. Deutsch. Article and lesson in guide. Reading included. From Shofar magazine 324 Performance Objectives Teaching/Learning Strategies and Activities Instructional Materials and Resources Students will be able to: 10. Raoul Wallenberg by Michael Nicholson and David Winner. Reading and lesson in 10. Raoul Wallenberg by Michael Nicholson guide. Famous rescuer and diplomat and David Winner is one of several whose disappearance into the hands of biographies of Wallenberg available. Soviet officials has never been fully Reading from this book is in guide. explained. 11. Varian Fry's autobiographical account of this American's efforts to save Jewish and 11. There is a video available to accompany non-Jewish targets of Nazi persecution is the autobiographical account written by told in Assignment: Rescue. Reading the American Varian Fry in Assignment: and lesson in guide. Rescue. 12. Excellent video with short vignettes about a number of courageous diplomats who tried to rescue those being hunted and persecuted by the Nazis is "Diplomats of the Damned." About 50 minutes in length. 325 Hiding, Escape, and Rescue In the beginning, most Jews were not aware what deportation, resettlement and ghettoization meant.