Call of Memory

Learning about the Holocaust through Narrative

This site enables students and educators to share ideas on learning and teaching Holocaust Literature.

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Dr. Keren Goldfrad

A general forum 11 Replies

This is our chance to discuss different issues that deal with teaching the Holocaust. We can attach files that we think will help others in the field, direct people to interesting websites, discuss c…

Started by Dr. Keren Goldfrad in Holocaust Education. Last reply by yehudit rahimi Jan 26.

Emily Witty

GERMANS AS RESCUERS

THOUGHTS? http://forward.com/articles/123155/

Started by Emily Witty in Holocaust Research Jan 14.

Sari Avni

Teahing the story "By the Railway Track"/ Zofia Nalkowska

I recommed on an intersting way of teaching the story: The students are requested to read the story beforehand. agtr that to give the students in class different paragraphs which talk about different…

Started by Sari Avni in Holocaust Education Dec. 23, 2009.

Emily Witty

Did Family Guy Go To Far?

Dear Colleagues, I am curious as to your reaction to this episode of Family Guy, which is titled Family GOY. http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/ shows like these reinforce age-old antisemi…

Started by Emily Witty in Holocaust Research Oct. 6, 2009.

Emily Witty

Will Time Fade Auschwitz?

Dear Colleagues, My sister sent me this article http://forward.com/articles/112465/ and I found it to be most poignant. How can we as Holocaust educators (if you feel we should) distinguish between…

Tagged: Oswiecim, Auschwitz

Started by Emily Witty in Holocaust Research Aug. 20, 2009.

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Emily Witty

Do we need to be flexible?

Here is what I am thinking about . . .


Recently, I was on the site www.brainpop.com, under the category of Social Studies and then the topic, Holocaust. I watched their short animated video about the Holocaust and after discussing the clip with one of my teachers, noticed some errors. For example, the chronology was out of order and they never explained that Poland was invaded. Th

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Posted by Emily Witty on January 23, 2008 at 9:37pm — 4 Comments

Dr. Keren Goldfrad

Auschwitz Photos



In January 2007, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a donation of a photograph album. Click on the photo above to view, hear and read more about this album.



"In the Shadow of Horror

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Posted by Dr. Keren Goldfrad on December 21, 2007 at 11:23am — 2 Comments

Al Nobile

History teachers: Oldest living holocaust survivor participating in live online event.

If Abraham Lincoln lived to be 103, he would have died in 1912. Leopold Engleitner turned 7 that year. Next Friday and Saturday at Moorepark College, Herr Engleitner will recount the nightmare visited upon him from 1939 to 1943, during the Nazi occupation of Austria. For the crime of becoming a Jehovah's Witness, Leopold spent those years in three concentration camps.

In promotion of the book and film, both entitled "Unbroken Will", the Moorepark College presentation will be streamed live. I'll… Continue

Posted by Al Nobile on May 19, 2009 at 7:30am

Karen Shawn

writingtheholocaust.blogspot

Dr. Charles A. Fishman, the poetry editor of our new journal, PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators, is also a blogger, and in that capacity he has interviewed me about the journal. The q & a is available at http://writingtheholocaust.blogspot.com/2009/07/interview-with-dr-karen-shawn-co-editor.html. There are other cool references to poetry and short stories on the blog site as well: check it out!

Posted by Karen Shawn on July 21, 2009 at 5:09am

Al Nobile

Miep Gies 1909-2010

Miep Gies bristled at the word "heroic" when someone was attempting to characterize her actions in harboring the Frank family during the Nazi occupation of Holland. To her, it was simply a question of doing what was expected in the face of a clear and present evil. It never crossed her mind to do less.

So when Otto Frank asked if she would help his family and friends avoid the storm troopers who were sending area Jews to death camps in Eastern Europe, the question was really just a formality. N… Continue

Posted by Al Nobile on January 13, 2010 at 11:17pm

About the book



The Call of Memory: Learning About the Holocaust Through Narrative
An Anthology & A Teacher’s Guide

Karen Shawn and Keren Goldfrad, editors
William Younglove, associate editor


These two complementary volumes are designed for students and teachers in high school, college, and university. Practical and highly readable, they are intended for use in history, social studies, literature, religion, and humanities classes, and for anyone interested in learning about the Holocaust through literary narratives.

The anthology offers 27 outstanding short stories by Holocaust survivors and contemporary writers including Rachmil Bryks, Ida Fink, Bernard Gotfryd, Aharon Megged, Cynthia Ozick, Kurt Vonnegut, and Elie Wiesel.

Stories Chosen for Classroom Use

The 27 stories in the Anthology are organized chronologically and thematically, allowing teachers to incorporate selections appropriately throughout any related course of study.

Each narrative is short, relatively easy to read and discuss, and stands on its own merits as fine literature. None requires unreasonable teaching preparation beyond a basic knowledge of Holocaust history and familiarity with the references offered in the companion Teacher’s Guide, yet each lays the groundwork for subsequent additional learning.

These stories, along with their analyses and suggestions for substantive teaching, provide the means for engagement that may encourage students to explore and deliberate the social, political, and historical issues that underlie the Holocaust narrative.

Extensive Teacher’s Guide

The Guide offers 43 essays divided into 10 units of study. University professors from Israel, the United States, and Australia provide incisive and detailed literary analyses of each story, along with scholarly resources.

American master teachers, representing public, private, Catholic, and Jewish high schools and resource centers, field-tested the stories, and in highly engaging, firstperson essays, they share their classroom experiences and offer immediately useful suggestions for making these narratives accessible to learners of all backgrounds and levels.

Geared to state standards are goals and objectives, vocabulary, classroom activities, discussion suggestions, writing prompts and rubrics, assessment advice, and extensive citations for research and individualized instruction, including up-to-date Web sites.
 
 

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