Remembering the Holocaust
Voices of the Wisconsin Past
Edited by Michael E. Stevens
1997 172 pp 36 photographs
6" x 9" ISBN 0-87020-293-6
Paperback $12.95
Remembering the Holocaust, the fourth volume in the Voices of the Wisconsin Past series contains firsthand accounts of one of the darkest chapters in human history: the Nazi persecution of the Jews before and during the World War II. These fourteen interviews with Holocaust survivors who settled in Wisconsin give names and faces to what might otherwise be an abstract reckoning of terror and inhumanity. They describe the richness and variety of pre-war experiences of the survivors.
Remembering the Holocaust will help students see survivors as individuals, each with his or her own unique perspective, rather than primarily as victims. By outliving Hitler and the Nazi death machine, these men and women triumphed over an ideology that sought to destroy an entire people. Wrenching and heart-breaking though their stories are, they also serve as testaments to courage and hope.
The Office of School Services has prepared a Teachers' Companion for Remembering the Holocaust. Containing teaching ideas and activities based on Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy, the guide contains suggestions suitable for all ability levels.
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