Holocaust - Hardcover

Angela Gluck Wood

4.38

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0756625351 ISBN 13: 9780756625351

Publisher: DK Children, 2007

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Explaining the complex political and social backdrop that allowed the Holocaust to occur, as well as its progression and aftermath, a comprehensive volume and forty-minute DVD contain first-hand testimony from survivors and enables readers to appreciate the impact of the Holocaust on real people and the lives they and their families have rebuilt today.

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About the Author:

AUTHOR: Angela Gluck Wood co-founded and works for Insted, the Inservice Training and Educational Development company. She has worked as a teacher trainer, an Ofsted inspector and broadcaster, writer and curriculum developer. She is an educational consultant, and specialises in Jewish and Israel studies. She's written more than 30 books, mainly on religious and cultural diversity, but including work on Holocaust survivors. Her publications include: World Religions: Judaism, Franklin Watts, 1999: an introduction to Judaism for 9-13 year old readers. Where We Worship, Franklin Watts, 1998: a series of books for Key Stage 1 readers, with specially commissioned photography; titles include Church - Christian, Mandir - Hindu, Mosque, - Muslim, Synagogue - Jewish and Temple -Buddhist Judaism for Today, Oxford University Press, 1997: a Key Stage 3 course book Passover, Wayland, 1997: an information book for 8i10 year old readers Jewish Festivals, Heinemann, 1995: a reference book for 8i10 year old readers, richly illustrated with colour photographs, many of which were specially commissioned or taken by the author. Judaism, Wayland, 1995: an introductory reference work for 10i14 year old readers; vividly illustrated with colour photographs, many of which were specially commissioned or taken by the author; also educational consultant to the entire series, based on six world faiths Being a Jew and Being a Muslim, Batsford, 1987: annotated anthologies of writings, illustrations and 'vox pop', for secondary school pupils and adults Judaism, Batsford, 1986: a reference work in the Dictionaries of World Religions series, suitable for secondary school pupils and adults

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Starred Review. DK's signature editorial aesthetic, combined with the searing testimony of Holocaust survivors collected by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute of Visual History and Education, makes for a sobering and visually compelling work of history. An extraordinary array of materials—Nazi propaganda, documentary photos, artwork, artifacts—are employed in the service of a broadly sweeping chronicle, beginning with Jewish exile from Jerusalem in 70 CE after Roman occupation and ending with modern-day Holocaust denial and the creation of memorials around the world. Each chapter includes a two-page spread entitled Voices, devoted largely to excerpts from 23 interviews in the Foundation's video archives (an accompanying 40-minute DVD contains the actual interviews). One survivor recalls the horror of being herded onto dark, overcrowded trains en route to Auschwitz; another describes how her mother told her about every book she ever read, every movie she'd ever seen as they hid in a grave-like hole under a pigsty. Wood's prose is economical and reportorial, and she clearly wants to reclaim the individuality and humanity of those devastated by this enormity (In many ways, numbers, especially very large numbers, mean nothing to us. What matters is each and every human being who was murdered by the Nazis) and she never resorts to lecturing readers on how they should feel. The book's detailed charts and maps contain almost too much information at times, often demanding very close scrutiny to fully decipher. Overall, however, the visual sensitivity and expert pacing serves this vital subject very well. Ages 11-up. (July)
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