PDF-(EBOOK)-They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before

Intimate humorous and refreshingly candid this extraordinary work is a remarkable recordin both words and imagesof Jewish life in a Polish town before World War II as seen through the eyes of an inquisitive boy Mayer Kirshenblatt who was born in 1916 and left Poland for Canada in 1934 taught himself to paint at age 73 Since then he has made it his mission to remember the world of his childhood in living color lest future generations know more about how Jews died than how they lived This volume presents his lively paintings woven together with a marvelous narrative created from interviews that took place over forty years between Mayer and his daughter Barbara KirshenblattGimblett Together father and daughter draw readers into a lost worldwe roam the streets and courtyards of the town of Apt witness details of daily life and meet those who lived and worked there the pregnant hunchback who stood under the wedding canopy just hours before giving birth the khayder teacher caught in bed with the drummers wife the cobblers son who was dressed in white pajamas all his life to fool the angel of death the corpse that was shaved and the couple who held a black wedding in the cemetery during a cholera epidemic This moving collaborationa unique blend of memoir oral history and artistic interpretationis at once a labor of love a tribute to a distinctive imagination and a brilliant portrait of life in one Jewish home town Copub The Judah L Magnes Museum. What was it and how did it start?. On Jews and their Lies…. First to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will see a stone or cinder of them.. 11 million people were exterminated. 6 million Jews. 5 million people . 1933 - 1945. Defining the Holocaust. HOLOCAUST . (Heb., . sho'ah. ) . which originally meant a sacrifice totally burned by fire . to. Teach About the. Holocaust . Sperling Kronberg Mack. Holocaust . R. esource Center. October, 2012. Susan . Dubin. 8 Principles for Selecting Books. Good books and stories are developmentally appropriate. In the 1940s, who was driven out of their neighborhoods and homes? . What is the Holocaust? . Where did the Holocaust take place? . What lie did the Nazis tell the Jewish people? . Why were Jewish people discriminated against? . Doane. College. October 25 -26, 2015. PIECING TOGETHER A VIEW OF WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE HOLOCAUST. Diaries allow students to reflect on the most innocent of the innocent victims of the Holocaust – the children.. The Holocaust was the systematic and planned murder of the Jewish people of Europe. This was carried out by the Nazi regime who came to power in Germany between 1933 and 1945. . By the end of the Holocaust Six Million Jewish men, women and children had died in Ghettos, mass shootings, concentration and death camps. . Kayla Bear. Let’s see what you already know about the Holocaust!. Start the Quiz. During what time period did the Holocaust occur?. a. 1931-1948. b. 1920-1946. c. . 1940-1942. d. 1933-1945. Correct! . http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=E225113F-C73C-4396-9FE2-F6CC16167909&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US#. Holocaust . Animated Maps of the Holocaust. View the animated map titled “World War II and the Holocaust.”. Presenters: . Felicia Alexander / USHMM Teacher Fellow. Amy McDonald/ USHMM Teacher Fellow. Salvaged Pages. by Alexandra . Zapruder. Focusing on Four Female Diarists. Eva . Ginzova. – . Terezin. Ghetto. Presenters: . Felicia Alexander / USHMM Teacher Fellow. Amy McDonald/ USHMM Teacher Fellow. Salvaged Pages. by Alexandra . Zapruder. Focusing on Four Female Diarists. Eva . Ginzova. – . Terezin. Ghetto. Essential Question. What were the M.A.I.N. causes and events of World War II?. Key Vocabulary. Genocide: the killing of an entire race of people. Final Solution: Hitler’s program of systemically killing the entire Jewish people.. L/O: To use primary sources to investigate how treatment of the Jews escalated after 1939 and what the ‘final solution was’.. http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Introduction-to-the-Holocaust-Footballers-Remember-6314180/. POLAND. covers 312,679 square kilometres with population over 37 milion people. and. . is divided into 16 administrative districts. . Polish flag A coat of arms. with his father and grandparents. His family was Jewish, like many other people in Poland at this time. He went to a school for Jewish children. In Germany a group called the Nazi Party ran the c