This book details clandestine efforts to provide education to beleaguered Jewish children under Nazi occupied areas of Europe and North Africa between 1933-1945. Included are efforts made in Germany during the rise of Nazism; in ghettos; concentration camps; orphanages; convents and monasteries; and even in forests. This book answers questions about the important factors that relate to understanding the improvised; and generally clandestine; education of Jewish children during the Shoah in German-occupied areas. It deals with who; what; where; how; and why Jewish children received education and how the answers might be applied to contemporary educational settings. This study shows that despite severe restrictions and enormous hardship there were adults who took responsibility for providing children with "schooling" that gave them a sense of normality and contributed to their lives in other ways as well. The conditions under which Jewish children lived during that period; the treatment they received from the adults with them; and their activities often determined; to a great extent; their survival and even conditions later in life. This important study should be of interest to scholars and others interested in understanding social conditions in time of war; educators wanting to read the philosophies; priorities and teaching methods of professional; progressive teachers as well as non-professional teachers during the Shoah and learn how children were taught academics; survival skills; and civility even under unstable; frightening; and dangerous conditions. It should also be of interested to a general readership still trying to know about and understand what happened during that tragic period of history.
#299573 in Books 2016-06-20Original language:English 9.00 x .11 x 6.00l; .17 #File Name: 153287400646 pages
Review
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Serious historyBy Perry B. Alers; aka peebeeThis is no Educational Comic-Book. It meets a serious challenge set by its publisher: to have a professional writer/historian capture the essence of a mighty upheaval in a narrative that should take no more than an hour to read. Mr. Freeman has done so; admirably. He has not only provided an illuminating overview of a knotted and confused event; but has been able to discuss; succinctly; both its origins and consequences. The whole effect is similar to that of a satellite photograph of a landscape whose features are so immense as to be invisible to a ground-bound observer.Without the forbidding clutter of a thousand footnotes; an off-shore reader should quickly be able to get a working knowledge of this seminal event; and an American; even today; can acquire a deeper understanding of how it is still affecting us. A five-star achievement.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Overall good; but I would like to see some changes.By Nick PetersHere are my thoughts on the Civil War history.First; for the positives. The history is easy to read and understand. Naturally; nothing can be covered in-depth; but there were a lot of interesting points that I had never thought of such as international relations and the way the South really did have to form a new government and were at a great disadvantage as a result.Second; the timing is good. You really could read this in under an hour. I multi-task so it took me a bit longer; but it is brief and if you have a subject you want to learn about; this is helpful.Third; the writer does not assume prior knowledge to the reading. This means if you don't know anything; you can pick it up and still learn.Whether the history is reliable or not; I cannot say. I am not an authority there; but I will go with things I would like to see changed.Now for what I would like to see changed.First; some terms were not defined. One such was antebellum. What if someone doesn't know what this term means?Second; one of my favorite reads about the Civil War is "The Civil War As A Theological Crisis" by Mark Noll. Still; I was stunned that in this book about America; a deeply religious nation; that God or religion or the Bible were not mentioned one time. I thought this a great oversight.Third; I thought the ending could have been changed. To speak about Black Lives Matter and AIDS and such seemed like politicizing. That really distracted me at the end.In Christ;Nick PetersDeeper Waters Christian Ministries1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Some challenges to older views.By Margaret F. GrimesI liked the book; with an updated view of the influencing elements of history; but would probably go with caution about some facts. Did most devastation of plantations happen at the hands of Southerners; as opposed to Sherman on the march to the sea? Maybe to crops; but not homes and belongings. Some faked a quarantine on the property to get troupes to pass by( ie.; Charleston; SC) Did the 20th century injustices to blacks not include housing laws; banking laws; loans to black businesses? A far deeper entrenchment of national policies in disguise denied the economic healing to blacks sought by a real reconstruction. The effects go on today. That started in the early part of the century and was not addressed here for an updated view. I liked the readability of the book and the challenge to some older historical thoughts..
