Tuesday, November 6, 2007
A story you don't often hear about the Holocaust
I came across an article in the LSJ last week called "Exhibition honors Muslims who saved Jews from Nazis". Since I had spent part of the day rereading some books about the Holocaust written for children, my mind jumped to the idea that this is a story that doesn't get told. (Both in its particulars and in a more general sense that the Muslims in the story are the heroes and don't see Jewish people as enemies.)
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I am conducting my final book project for this class using children's books that represent Arabs and/or Arab-Americans. Some of the books that I have found thus far have dealt with the Muslim religion and I was just wondering if this particular article included children's or adolescent books that cover this particular transaction between Muslims and Jews during the second world war? I think that this would add an interesting perspective to the collection of books that I was able to find at the public library and I would be interested to see the character development in such a book between two groups of people who have historically been at odds with one another. Thanks!
You can link to the article if you want to read it but, no, the article doesn't say anything about children's books on the topic. I was just engaging in wishful thinking because it is a story that I wish would be told!
I found the article really interesting. I teach Sunday school at a local Jewish temple in East Lansing. Last year, the final unit I taught was on the holocaust. One of our lessons focused on righteous Gentiles who helped save lives. I told the class about the "Righteous Among the Nations" that Yad Vashem has.
I have been to Yad Vashem a few times and walked the path of the "Righteous Among the Nations." It is very moving. They have many trees planted dedicated to those who helped save lives during the Holocaust. Each tree has a plaque stating the name, the location, and how many lives they saved. There is also an extended list on the Yad Vashem website and it organizes it by countries. Here is the site:
http://www1.yadvashem.org/righteous/index_righteous.html
oops, the site didnt come all the way through...all you have to do is add .html after index_righteous
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