Through a close reading of diary entries, students consider the fear, denial, anxiety, sadness, and grief that individuals separated from loved ones during the Holocaust experienced.
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Read and Reflect: Emigration in Klaus Langer’s Diary
Students learn about the obstacles to emigration during the Holocaust by reading about one family’s attempts to leave Nazi occupied Germany.
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Read and Reflect: Escape in Peter Feigl’s Diary
By comparing two personal accounts of escape from German-occupied Europe, students gain a deeper understanding of escape and the refugee experience during the Holocaust.
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Read and Reflect: Fear in Dawid Rubinowicz’s Diary
Through a close reading of diary entries, students consider how terror and intimidation shaped the experience of Jews living under German occupation.
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Read and Reflect: Hope and Despair
Students compare the ways that three young people experienced and wrote about their emotional states in the face of Nazi oppression.
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Read and Reflect: Hunger in an Anonymous Girl’s Diary
By reading diary entries of a girl living in the Łódź ghetto, students consider the effects of hunger and deprivation on the bodies, minds, and spirits of those who lived in ghettos.
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Read and Reflect: Identity and Faith in Moshe Flinker's Diary
Students reflect on how one young man drew on religion to understand the persecution he faced during the Holocaust.
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Read and Reflect: Intellectual and Creative Life in Yitskhok Rudashevski’s Diary
Through a close reading of diary entries, students learn about the intellectual and cultural life of young people living in the Vilna ghetto during the Holocaust.
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Read and Reflect: News and Rumors in Ilya Gerber’s Diary
Through a close reading of diary entries, students learn about the spread of misinformation among Jews during the Holocaust caused by the Nazis’ control of information.
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Read and Reflect: Relationship with Rescuers in Otto Wolf’s Diary
Through a close reading of diary entries, students consider the complex relationships that surfaced between non-Jews and Jews living under German occupation.
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Read and Reflect: Survival in Alice Ehrmann’s Diary
Students read the personal reflections of two young Holocaust survivors on the cost of surviving and the responsibility to bear witness.
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Read and Reflect: Why Write? From an Anonymous Boy’s Diary
Students read an entry from the diary of an anonymous boy in the Łódź ghetto and reflect on what motived people to write during the Holocaust.
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