<div dir="ltr">Hello hivemind... <div><br></div><div>I received an email from a person named Ellen Murphy about free books. Has anyone else received this or gotten these books before? </div><div><br></div><div>Info from email: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size:11px">1 March, 2023</span></div><div class="gmail-adn gmail-ads" style="border-left:none;padding:0px;display:flex;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-gs" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:886px"><div class="gmail-"><div id="gmail-:1kb" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" style="direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.875rem"><div id="gmail-:2kg" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aiL" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;overflow:hidden"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear Librarian Ms. Maldonado,</p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:13px"><b></b><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)">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.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:12px"> </p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>With FREE SHIPPING we would like to donate the book</b> <i>Through Eva’s Eyes, </i>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.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)">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.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:12px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Free</b> <b>shipping </b>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. <b>Let me know how many books you would like when you respond, with your full confirmed mailing address. Note info about Teaching Guide below.</b></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:12px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)">Please contact <span style="text-decoration-line:underline">Ellen Murphy</span> (Phoebe’s mom) for books or more information, at <a href="mailto:murphysister04@gmail.com" target="_blank">murphysister04@gmail.com</a>,  or call 913.831.2502  (De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 </p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:9px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:11px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:9px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Teaching Guide: </b>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 <b>FREE! Just ask and I will email you the pdf. </b></p></div><div class="gmail-yj6qo"></div><div class="gmail-adL"></div></div></div><div class="gmail-hi" style="border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px;padding:0px;width:auto;background:rgb(242,242,242);margin:0px"></div></div></div><div class="gmail-ajx" style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="gmail-gA gmail-gt gmail-acV" style="font-size:0.875rem;padding:0px;width:auto;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-top:none;margin:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div class="gmail-gB gmail-xu" style="border-top:0px;padding:0px"><div class="gmail-ip gmail-iq" style="clear:both;margin:0px;padding:16px 0px;border-top:none"><div id="gmail-:16e"><table class="gmail-cf gmail-wS" role="presentation" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td class="gmail-amq" style="padding:0px 16px;vertical-align:top;width:44px"><img id="gmail-:lo_140" name=":lo" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/AGNmyxYc1aF1mb8velJK7vNmLSiWGryjYorzrUuhgkNmgQ=s80-p" class="gmail-ajn gmail-bofPge" style="display: block; width: 40px; height: 40px; border-radius: 50%;"></td><td class="gmail-amr" style="padding:0px;width:886px"><div class="gmail-nr gmail-wR" style="box-sizing:border-box;border-radius:1px;padding:0px;border:none;margin:0px"><div class="gmail-amn" style="color:inherit;height:auto;padding:0px;display:flex;line-height:20px"><span id="gmail-:1zy" role="link" tabindex="0" class="gmail-ams gmail-bkH" style="border:1px solid rgb(116,119,117);display:inline-flex;font-size:0.875rem;background:none;border-radius:18px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(68,71,70);height:36px;outline:none;padding:0px 16px 0px 12px;min-width:104px;margin-right:8px">Reply</span><span id="gmail-:2k0" role="link" tabindex="0" class="gmail-ams gmail-bkG" style="border:1px solid rgb(116,119,117);display:inline-flex;font-size:0.875rem;background:none;border-radius:18px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(68,71,70);height:36px;outline:none;padding:0px 16px 0px 12px;min-width:104px;margin-right:8px">Forward</span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div>