Jewish
Holocaust and Beyond Pathfinder
Bernadine
Nichols
Kettering
Middle School
Centerville,
Ohio
Jewish
Holocaust Action Plan
Grade
7
Language
Arts
Information
about the Jewish Holocaust
Content
Information
The
seventh grade students are going to read a novel, Strasser’s The Wave,
in
their language arts class. In order to improve their understanding of
the
significance of this novel, as they lack knowledge of Hitler’s rise to
power
and the horror of the Holocaust, they will gather reliable
information
about these events.
Students
began reading and taking notes about the conditions in Germany
and
the
subsequent persecution of Jewish citizens throughout Europe
from the
1930’s until 1945. They
compared and discussed their findings with study
partners
and classmates. The teachers were available throughout these
discussions
to provide advice and direction as needed. Several short
reflective
writing discussion sessions were completed in the classroom
prior
to reading their novel.
Some
of the Dewey numbers they will consult are 362.87, 364.1, 373.09, 920,
940.53,
and BIO.
Several
of the Subject Headings used are Jewish Holocaust, 1939-1945,
Holocaust,
World War II and Holocaust, Concentration Camps and individual
names.
Books (Non-Fiction)
Altman,
Linda J. The Holocaust Ghettos. Springfield,
NJ:
Enslow, 1998.
Anflick, Charles. Restistnce:
Teen Partisans and Resisters Who Fought Nazi
Tyranny.
New York:
Rosen Publishing, 1999.
Axelrod, Toby. Rescuers Defying the Nazis: Non-Jewish
Teeens Who Rescued Jews.
New York:
Rosen Publishing, 1998.
Ayer,
Eleanor H. In the Ghetto: Teens Who Survived the Ghettos of the
Holocaust.
New
York:
Rosen Publishing, 1999.
Byers,
Ann. The Holocaust Camps. Springfield,
NJ:
Enslow, 1998.
…,.The Holocaust Overview.
Springfield,
NJ:
Enslow, 1998.
Chaikin, Miriam. A Nightmare in History: the Holocaust,
1935-1945. New
York:
Clarion
Books, 1987.
Dabba
Smith, Frank and Mendel Grossman. My Secret Camera:
Life in the Lodz
Ghetto.
San Diego,
CA:
Harcourt, Inc., 2000.
Fremon, David K. The Holocaust
Heroes. Springfield,
NJ:
Enslow, 1998.
Gottfried,
Ted and Stephen Alcorn, Nazi Germany:
the Face of Tyranny.
Brookfield,
CT:
Twenty-First Century Books, 2000.
Landau,
Elaine. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
New
York: New Discovery, 1992.
…,We Survived the Holocaust.
New
York: Watts,
1991.
Levine,
Ellen. Darkness over Denmark:
the Danish Resistance and the Rescue
of
the
Jews.
New
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House, 2000.
Lyttle, Richard B. Nazi Hunting. New
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1982.
Meltzer,
Milton. Never to Forget; the Jews of the Holocaust.
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Harper
& Row,
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Nir, Yehuda. The Lost
Childhood: a World War II Memoir. New
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Scholastic,
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Tito,
E. Tina. Liberation: Teens in the Concentration Camps and the Teen
Soldiers
Who
Liberated
Them. New York:
Rosen Publishing, 1990.
U.
S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum and Michael Berebaum.
The World Must Know: the
History
of the Holocaust as Told in the United
States Holocaust
Museum.
Boston:
Little
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Yeatts, Tabatha, The Holocaust Survivors. Springfield,
NJ:
Enslow, 1998.
Reference
Books
Glanz, Jeffery. Holocaust Handbook for Teachers:
Materials and Strategies
for
Grades
5-12.
Dubuque,
IA:
Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 2001.
Holocaust Memorial Council and U. S. Holocaust Memorial Committee.
Fifty
Years
Ago:
from Terror to Systematic Murder. Washington,
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United States
Holocaust
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World Book Encyclopedia. Chicago:
World Book, Inc., 2002.
Internet
Sites
Holocaust
Chronicle
http://www.holocaustchronicle.org
The
History Place-Holocaust
Timeline
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html
People’s
Century Master Race 1926-1945
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/episodes/masterrace/links.html
InfOhio Resources
EBSCO plethora of current articles concerning Holocaust and genocide.
Commentary:
Iraq
must be secular, International Custom Wire 9 Oct. 2003.
EBSCO.
InfOhio. http://www.infohio.org
Reynolds,
Cynthis. Trauma in Toronto:
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SIRS
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SIRS
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Videos
Assignment:Rescue. Menlo
Park, CA:
1993.
Auschwitz:
If You Cried, You Died. Indianapolis:
Moore
Foundation, 1993.
Devil’s
Arithmetic. New
York: Third
Row
Center
Films, 1999.