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Sixty Years After the Holocaust Children Need to Continue Learning

The cost of 102 books for a Holocaust classroom library, includinng No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War and Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz (from Barnes and Noble) is $1176, including shipping and <a target="new" href="http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm" onclick="g_openWindow('http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm', 300, 800, 'fulfillwindow');return false;">fulfillment</a>.

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On the 60th anniversary of the Holocaust, eleven of my students and I were invited to attend a Holocaust Remembrance Breakfast hosted by Mayor Richard M. Daley of Chicago, Illinois. This invitation was a direct response after my English as a Second Language students planned and organized a school-wide exhibit of sixty different events, places and important persona of the Holocaust. My students did a tremendous amount of learning and growing through this unit and were excited about the positive response they received by other students in the school and the administration. Since I teach in an inner-city high school where the student population is comprised of students from all over the world, opinions about this historic event were plenty. It became quickly apparent that no one, including myself, really knew much about the Holocaust. My students and I dove into our research with such desire to learn. However, we soon found out that our research would prove difficult. Even though there is a large amount of information available, our school library has very little to offer in terms of substance. We found material that was either too difficult to understand, or required additional resources, or material that was too superficial. In fact, the public library close to our school was not much help either, and research in our school's computer lab was difficult to conduct since most sites were blocked by the Chicago Public Schools' firewall filters. Soon it will be required for me to cover the Holocaust again. I want this group of students to learn even more about the Holocaust than my students did last year. I do not want to hear, "I can't find anything about this person." How frustrating is that? Please help us build a comprehensive Holocaust classroom library which will give my students the necessary resources and a comprehensive and clear picture of this important historical event. The lack of resources should not be a factor for this important event to lose its importance because my students lack the resources. These children are our future, and history is our past. We cannot deny our children the opportunity to learn from it.

Mrs. Alfred
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
History of the Holocaust: A Handbook and Dictionary Abraham J. Edelheit, Hershel Edelheit • Barnes and Noble $46.80 1 $46.80
Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race Dieter Kuntz (Editor), Susan Bachrach (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $40.50 1 $40.50
Legacies of Silence: The Visual Arts and Holocaust Memory Glenn Sujo, Foreword by Robert Crawford • Barnes and Noble $36.00 1 $36.00
World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Michael Berenbaum • Barnes and Noble $26.95 1 $26.95
Visual Culture and the Holocaust Barbie Zelizer • Barnes and Noble $22.50 1 $22.50
The Tiger in the Attic: Memories of the Kindertransport and Growing Up English Edith Milton • Barnes and Noble $20.25 1 $20.25
Holocaust Chronicle John Roth (Editor), David Aretha (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $17.99 1 $17.99
Rescued Images: Memories of a Childhood in Hiding Ruth Jacobsen • Barnes and Noble $17.95 1 $17.95
Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and why Do They Say It? Michael Shermer, Alex Grobman • Barnes and Noble $16.15 1 $16.15
History of the Holocaust Yehuda Bauer, Nili Keren, With Nili Keren • Barnes and Noble $16.15 1 $16.15
...I Never Saw Another Butterfly...: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp 1942-1944 Hana Volavkova (Editor), Vaclav Havel (Afterword), Foreword by Chaim Potok • Barnes and Noble $15.75 1 $15.75
Memories of Survival Bernice Steinhart, Bernice Steinhardt • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Hana's Suitcase Karen Levine, Karen Levine (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.35 1 $14.35
Little Boy Star: An Allegory of the Holocaust Rachel Hausfater, Olivier Latyk (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.56 1 $13.56
Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz Lucette Matalon Lagnado, Sheila C. Dekel, Sheila Cohn Dekel • Barnes and Noble $13.50 1 $13.50
Destined to Witness: Growing up Black in Nazi Germany Hans J. Massaquoi • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
Willy and Max: A Holocaust Story Amy Littlesugar, William Low (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.79 1 $12.79
Maus: A Survivor's Tale Volume 1: My Father Bleeds History Art Spiegelman, Tom Engelhardt (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $12.60 1 $12.60
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel Louise Murphy • Barnes and Noble $12.60 1 $12.60
Maus: A Survivor's Tale Volume 2: And Here My Troubles Began Art Spiegelman • Barnes and Noble $12.60 1 $12.60
Five Chimneys: A Woman's Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz Olga Lengyel • Barnes and Noble $12.55 1 $12.55
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account Miklos Nyiszli, Richard Seaver (Translator), Tibere Kramer (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $11.65 1 $11.65
Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers Filip Muller, Helmut Freitag, Susanne Flatauer, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Susanne Flatauer (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $11.65 1 $11.65
Hiding Place Corrie Ten Boom, John Sherrill, John L. Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill • Barnes and Noble $10.79 1 $10.79
Six Million Paper Clips: The Making of a Children's Holocaust Memorial Peter W. Schroeder, Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand • Barnes and Noble $7.15 5 $35.75
Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps Andrea Warren • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust Eve Bunting, Stephen Gammell (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 5 $31.25
A Picture Book of Anne Frank (Picture Book Biography Series) David A. Adler, Karen Ritz (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
Number the Stars Lois Lowry • Barnes and Noble $5.85 5 $29.25
Upstairs Room Johanna Reiss • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust Livia Bitton-Jackson, Livia Bitton Jackson, Foreword by Livia Bitton-Jackson • Barnes and Noble $5.39 5 $26.95
I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust Inge Auerbacher, Israel Bernbaum (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.39 5 $26.95
Cage Ruth Minsky Sender, Ellen Krieger (Editor), Jim Coon (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.39 5 $26.95
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War Anita Lobel • Barnes and Noble $5.39 5 $26.95
Parallel Journeys Eleanor Ayer, Alfons Heck, Helen Waterford, With Alfons Heck, With Helen Waterford • Barnes and Noble $5.39 5 $26.95
Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl David Kherdian • Barnes and Noble $5.39 5 $26.95
Four Perfect Pebbles:: A Holocaust Story Lila Perl, Marion Blumenthal Lazan • Barnes and Noble $5.39 5 $26.95
Jacob's Rescue: A Holocaust Story Malka Drucker, Michael Halperin, Drucker Malka, With Michael Halperin • Barnes and Noble $4.95 5 $24.75
My Bridges of Hope Livia Bitton-Jackson • Barnes and Noble $4.49 5 $22.45
Survivors: True Stories Of Children In The Holocaust Allan Zullo • Barnes and Noble $4.49 5 $22.45
Daniel's Story Carol Matas • Barnes and Noble $4.49 5 $22.45
Devil's Arithmetic Jane Yolen • Barnes and Noble $3.59 5 $17.95

Materials cost

$856.35

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Sales tax

3rd party payment processing fee

Fulfillment labor & materials

Total project cost

$982.98

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$215.78

Total project goal

$1,198.76

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,198.76

11 Donors

-$1,106.09

Donations toward project cost

-$983.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$122.84

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$93.00

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