From: Diane Nelson <blue_giraffe72>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:34:14 -0700 (PDT)

more - I haven't read..

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> Today's Topics:
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> 1. Re: Holocaust Literature for Children and
> Teens (Genco, Barbara)
> 2. Trivialization of Holocaust (Ruth I. Gordon)
> 3. Holocaust (Norma Jean)
> 4. Re: Holocaust (Monica Edinger)
> 5. Holocaust (Edward T. Sullivan)
> 6. Re: Holocaust (Ann Mitchell)
> 7. Teaching the Holocaust (Almagor, Lelac)
> 8. Re: Holocaust (Ellen Greever)
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> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:55:10 -0400
> From: "Genco, Barbara"
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> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Holocaust Literature for
> Children and Teens
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> I read a great deal of Holocaust narratives after I
> was first introduced to
> Anne Frank's DIARY in the mid 1960's (and of course
> saw the Hollywood film).
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>
> However the book on the Holocaust that most
> impressed me as a teen and one I
> still remember to this day was Kitty Hart's I AM
> ALIVE, published by
> Abelard-Schuman (1961). Stunning and life changing.
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>
> Hart also wrote a book published by Athenaeum in the
> US (1982) called RETURN
> TO AUSCHWITZ: THE REMARKABLE STORY OF A GIRL WHO
> SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST. I
> think it may still be in print in the UK. There was
> also a moving
> documentary film on PBS called I think "Kitty
> Returns to Auschwitz" ca.
> 1978. I wish they were all still in print and
> available.
>
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>
> The most recent kids' novel I have read with a
> Holocaust theme is THE BOY IN
> STRIPED PAJAMAS by John Boyne (to be published this
> September), David
> Fickling Books/Random House.
>
> I found this a rare and unusual novelistic treatment
> of a subject that has
> to be among the most difficult for any non-survivor
> to imagine and portray.
>
> It reminded me of Elie Wiesel's NIGHT. (Also read by
> many, many teens here
> in Brooklyn-and that's pre-OPRAH.)
>
> Boyne's book reminded me of Weisel not because it is
> in any way 'about' the
> experience of a child who lived 'through' the
> Holocaust--as is survivor
> Weisel's book. But THE BOY moved and mesmerized me
> through the restrained,
> inevitable, low key power of the narrative. I
> literally could not stop
> reading it.
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> Barbara A. Genco
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> Director of Collection Development
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> Brooklyn Public Library
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> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:41:45 -0700
> From: "Ruth I. Gordon" <Druthgo at sonic.net>
> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Trivialization of Holocaust
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> Another country heard from, re: Barbara Genco.
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> Author: BOYNE
> Title: THE BOY IN STRIPED PAJAMAS
> Publisher: Fickling--released by Random House
> Date: 2006 Pages:
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> Annotation: At a time when memories of the
> Holocaust (W.W. II in
> Europe) are fading and research has demonstrated
> that the subject is
> poorly taught, if at all, in England and the U.S.,
> Boyne?s book comes
> as a slap in the face of history and the victims of
> those obscene
> events. It is styled as a ?fable,? defined in a
> dictionary as ?A
> narration intended to enforce a useful truth?. What
> is the truth
> that this hopes to convey: That a nine-year-old boy,
> Bruno, son of a
> high ranking S.S. officer, commandant of Auschwitz,
> would not know
> that the Fuhrer?s title is not ?The Fury;? that
> Auschwitz is not
> ?out-with;? that he is living in a house with a full
> view of the
> barbed wire (and electrified) fences surrounding the
> place; that the
> many people he sees in ?striped pajamas? are not
> there on holiday?
> Or are the terms he uses merely ?cutisms? to show
> how innocent he
> is? After all, so many Germans and their allies
> also proclaimed
> their innocence.
>
> In his boredom and loneliness and his nostalgia for
> his home and
> friends in Berlin, Bruno hikes the area outside the
> fence at great
> length. He comes upon a thin striped pajama clad
> boy of his own age
> within the fence and they begin a relationship of
> sorts. The boy,
> Shmuel, a Polish Jewish prisoner--although we are
> not told that he is
> Jewish--interests Bruno who sometimes brings him
> food--if he
> remembers not to eat it. Eventually, Bruno, in
> striped pajamas
> supplied by Shmuel (and where did he acquire them?
> From a corpse?)
> slides under the fence and joins Shmuel but they
> both are sent to the
> ?showers? and then, one must presume, the ovens.
>
> There are many questions that Boyne does not answer
> and which can be
> answered only by a knowledgeable person, of whom
> there
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