Archive for the ‘Hidden Letters’ Category
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
Sixth grade teacher, Glen Speigelman, and English Language Arts teacher, Debra D’Turi have been working in collaboration with Patty Eyer and Kerri McBride to enhance the students' emotional response to Historical Fiction and understanding of the circumstances surrounding World War II. At a recent librarian’s conference focusing on getting kids hooked ...
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
Click here to watch Simon Jeruchim speak to sixth graders from
Ms. Sorensen and Mr. Spiegelman's Class about his experiences during the Holocaust.
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
During World War II, the United States government instituted mandatory rationing of many items, including fuel, gasoline, food, tires, cars, stoves, and footware. Rationing created a bureaucratic papertrail in various formats, which included coupons, booklets, certificates, and stamps. For more information click here.
The Ration Coupons shown here are from the ...
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Listen to a select piece of the Violin Concerto in Major D written by Beethoveen.
How does it make you feel?
How could it have influenced others during Hitler's time?
Can hope and despair coexist?
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
"The Sound of Silence" is the song that propelled the 1960s folk music duo Simon and Garfunkel to popularity. Listen to the words and respond to the following questions. Why did so few people choose to become rescuers while most people did not? What challenges and risks did all rescuers ...
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Flip’s story and the fate of Dutch Jews in the Netherlands demonstrate how effectively hatred and intolerance can lead to genocide in the absence of appropriate individual, national and international responses. Hidden Letters focuses on the need for all citizens to respond to injustice. The United States has not been ...
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
The Germans imposed rationing on the Dutch. Nothing could be bought with out ration cards.
Nazi propaganda demonized and denigrated Jews and other groups to provide a rationale for their destruction. Arguments for their elimination were presented using unsupported inferences, visual images and stereotypes. Hidden Letters documents the 1933 book burning ...
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
We recently read the historical fiction novel, Number of the Stars by Lois Lowry. Flip and Ellen Rosen’s story have striking parallels and yet there are some pronounced differences. Like Flip, we shared the second hand experiences of Annemarie and Ellen under the Nazis. Explore the differences and similarities of ...
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
While many Dutch people collaborated with the Nazis, -- the annotations in Hidden Letters point out that over 20,000 Dutch citizens joined the German army and that Dutch authorities cooperated in running labor camps and arresting resisters -- many people, both Jewish and non-Jewish, did resist in ways big and ...
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
In the spring of 1942, Flip was sent to the Molengoot work camp run by the Dutch authorities at the behest of the Nazis. While at Molengoot, Flip wrote to his family almost everyday from the time of his arrival in April 1942 to his escape in September 1942. These ...
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