by Molly Carocci
Movies:
Secret Courage: The Walter Suskind Story,
by Carlisle locals Tim & Karen Morse
Walter Suskind helped orchestrate the escape of close to 1000 Dutch children who were marked for transport to the death camps; told by five of the saved children.
Paper Clips, by Linda Hooper
The story of children at a Tennessee middle school who decided to collect 6 million paper clips in order to understand the magnitude of the Holocaust. (All ages)
Holocaust: Theresienstadt,
introduction by Simon Wiesenthal
The story of the “model camp,” known as Terezin.
Books for Children:
6 Million Paper Clips: The Making of a Children’s Holocaust Memorial, by Peter W. Schroeder (grades 4 -8)
I Never Saw Another Butterfly, by Hana Volavkova
Poems and pictures by the children imprisoned in the Terezin camp. (grades 4 -8)
Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust,
by Eve Bunting
An allegory using animals to teach about fighting injustice and discrimination. (grades K -3)
The Butterfly,
by Patricia Polacco
Two young French girls, one of whom is Jewish and is being hidden by the other girl’s mother, become secret friends. A true story. (grades K-3)
Books for Adults:
Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust,
by Robert Rosen, Gerhard Weinberg, and Alan Dershowitz
The Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust, by Mordecai Paldiel
The story of Yad Vashem, the organization that honors non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews.
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million,
by Daniel Mendelsohn
The author, a successful novelist, searched for evidence of his relatives’ disappearance from their small village in the Ukraine during the Holocaust.
The Climate of the Community is the Responsibility of the Citizens of the Community