[aisle] Holocaust Books

[Lani Maldonado]

Hello hivemind...

I received an email from a person named Ellen Murphy about free books. Has
anyone else received this or gotten these books before?

Info from email: 1 March, 2023


Dear Librarian Ms. Maldonado,


Please read and share with MIDDLE SCHOOL Social Studies, ELA, History
teachers and librarians in your school or district who may be interested in
this book and its subject.



*With FREE SHIPPING we would like to donate the book* *Through Eva’s
Eyes, *written
and illustrated by Phoebe Unterman, to your classroom and library to enrich
teaching and discussion of the Holocaust and other genocides. Phoebe
interviewed and researched her grandmother’s survival of WWII (Eva’s
parents also survived), and wrote the story for a middle school assignment.
Her teacher encouraged her to submit it to a publisher’s Written and
Illustrated By contest, and it was published when Phoebe was in high
school. When the publisher retired we (her parents) purchased the books in
order to donate to school districts who need resources but don’t
necessarily have funding for new materials. The book has been for sale at
the USHMM in Washington, DC, and other outlets, since its publication.

Phoebe has graduated from college and works as a freelance podcast producer
in Los Angeles. Her grandmother, Eva of the title, 90, lives in Tulsa,
Oklahoma, where she has been active in Holocaust awareness and education
since the 1970’s.


*Free* *shipping *is made possible by a private grant available from the
Eva Unterman Holocaust Education Fund in memory of Dawid Sierakowiak, based
at the Jewish Federation of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and other donations. Books can
be requested in any number, individually or in teaching sets. *Let me know
how many books you would like when you respond, with your full confirmed
mailing address. Note info about Teaching Guide below.*


Please contact Ellen Murphy (Phoebe’s mom) for books or more information,
at murphysister04 at gmail.com,  or call 913.831.2502  (Dependable answering
machine)


*BOOK REVIEW*

Unterman, P. E. (2012). *Through Eva’s Eyes. *Kansas City: Landmark House
(retired). Available from the author’s family by emailing
murphysister04 at gmail.com or calling 913.831.2502.

*(Grades 4-7)*

Annotated by Karen Shawn.

This true story about Eva Unterman was written and illustrated by Eva’s
granddaughter Phoebe when she was 12. It is remarkable for its clear and
engaging narrative; its attention to the details of Eva’s life before the
Holocaust; and its vivid description of life in the Lodz Ghetto, including
the aching hunger and freezing cold; and of the family’s deportation to
Auschwitz and, later, to Stutthof, where her grandmother was murdered. The
story follows Eva and her mother as they are taken to work in a munitions
factory in Dresden, where they survive the city’s bombing. Forced to walk
to Terezin, they survive; are liberated by the Russians; and, miraculously,
are reunited with Eva’s father. An epilogue brings the family’s story up to
date.

This unusual and beautiful book is a gentle and careful introduction to one
survivor’s story through the pen of a grandchild who listened carefully.
Its childlike tone is authentic and the details, while not at all graphic,
are precise and evocative. It may encourage other talented children to
inquire about and perhaps to write their families’ Holocaust stories.

Suggested Books from the Holocaust Educator’s Consortium

Published in PRISM, Yeshiva University

Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration

Spring 2014


*IN ADDITION:*  Winter, 2021-22

The book has been added to the recommended books for children by the Jewish
Book Council:
https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/books/reading-lists/holocaust-books-for-children
,

for the way it walks young readers through difficult information, safely
allowing them to relate to a child’s viewpoint when discussing tolerance,
adversity, and prejudice.


*Teaching Guide: *An Arizona teacher created a Teaching Guide to go with
the book, to fit into AZ’s existing format, when she was asked to evaluate
it for her state. She sent it to me to share. I put it into pdf form and
can email it so you can print it. Like the book and shipping, it, too,
is *FREE!
Just ask and I will email you the pdf. *
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