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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! Continue

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

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,510071,00.html

Thanks, Lana!

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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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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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