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Mandel Fellowship - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - 
a note from Ms. Hesse

   The Holocaust is something that intrigued me when I was a high school student.  I found myself frequently reading books on the topic to discover more.  In 1998, I was one of twenty teachers who traveled to Eastern Europe on a Fulbright Group Projects Abroad, spending six weeks visiting Holocaust sites and learning the history.  The visit to Auschwitz forever changed me. Walking where so many walked hoping for the impossible, was so intense that none of us spoke to one another or even so much as looked at each other.  The year following that trip I participated in the Mandel Fellowship Program at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum which entailed a week of intensive and extensive training at the museum conducted by Holocaust scholars and survivors.  I have done many presentations for teachers, as well as immersed my own students in that history.

My Mandel Project (secondary students): 

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website is by far the most comprehensive Holocaust website.




MY PROJECT FOR THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM

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   Participation in the Mandel Fellowship required a selected project that focused on an area of interest to the Fellow.  I developed an affective curriculum for secondary which focused on concept words and utilized primary source documents, literature, and Holocaust memoirs as a springboard for discussion and personal reflection.  The Concept words were:  Self-Deception, Acceptance, Suffering, Evil, Altruism, Power, Paradox, Forgiveness, and Vision.  I have used this curriculum with gifted student four times.
   This project was by far the most challenging thing I have ever done.  It was critiqued several times by Dan Napolitano, who was the then Director of Education for the Museum.  The first time I got the curriculum back after mailing it to him, I was frantic --it was covered in red ink.  I read his critique, worked on corrections, and then mailed it back to him.  This process continued three times.  When it was finished I was proud of the work, knowing it was excellent.  I will be forever thankful to Dan for mentoring me in this process.




on-line WORKSHOP FOR TEACHERS from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum... EXCELLENT





Check out "WORDS THAT REMAIN" - a collection of powerful quotes from those who know... (LINK)




Miss Hesse's FAVORITE HOLOCAUST BOOKS --the ones I go back to again and again

"Auschwitz and After" 
by Charlotte Delbo

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Delbo's book was recommended by Dr. John Roth, professor of Holocaust history. It is incredible. You can taste the dust and feel the cold. The book consists of stand alone vignettes that are visceral. HIGHLY RECOMMEND

"A Survivors' Haggadah" edited by Saul Touster

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Shortly after the liberation of the camps a Passover Seder was held at one of the refugee camps under the auspices of the U. S. Army. For this Seder, the images of the Egyptians were replaced by those of the Nazis. This book is a replica of that Haggadah.

"Art from the Ashes"
a Holocaust anthology edited by Lawrence Langer

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This anthology contains many types of creative responses from the Holocaust that shed light on that time and the pain and suffering.

"Nightfather"
by Carl Friedman

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This book was also recommended by Dr. Roth. Written in the voice of a young girl whose father was a survivor of the camp, we get a glimpse of the impact the Holocaust had on the future of survivors and those who love them.




On-Line Exhibitions - Springboards for Research! (from USHMM)

    




The following are several presentations I have used with both teachers and students. The Lidice, Terezin, and Auschwitz slideshows include many photographs I took at those sites as well as information I learned while there. The slideshow that explains the victim groups is the most important for anyone seeking to learn about the Holocaust --it is based on the work of Dr. William Frederick Meinecke --a video of his presentation can be found at:
http://www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators/will/

VICTIMS - explains why various groups were targeted




Auschwitz --while we were there we did not speak, we didn't even look at one another... This presentation shares information about Auschwitz I and Birkenau --little more than a few miles apart.  I will never forget the silence of that place.




"Who Will Carry the Word?"

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Follow the LINK to the Holocaust play, "Who Will Carry the Word?" written by Charlotte Delbo about her experiences in Auschwitz. This group of young women gave everything possible to the performance --it was remarkable. Teachers wishing to have the complete play may use the contact box on the homepage and request a free DVD.




Lidice is little known by many who study the Holocaust.  It is a testimony to the extent the Nazis sought to control by intimidation and oppression.  I will always remember the Childrens' Memorial I saw At Lidice.  Powerful --troubling.





At Terezin I saw the Red Cross propaganda film the Nazis created to fool the world.

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