[MOSAIC] Mosaic Digest, Vol 20, Issue 25

Mon Apr 28 10:14:10 EDT 2008

I did not feel it was too graphic.  It does show some photographs of the camp and the bony skeleton like people who were liberated.  She does say that when she first came to the camp that she saw some dead children. And then there is a photograph of two skeletal dead children.  That is about as graphic as it gets. The emphasis of the video is on forgiveness and it shows Eva sharing that with many, many people.  The experiments are not described in detail.  They do say that they injected one twin with a disease to use the other twin as a control group.  Eva's sister was injected with something that caused her kidneys not to grow.  Eva later donated a kidney to her sister. The forgiveness journey that Eva took started with trying to find Dr. Mengele's notes so the doctors would know what Eva's sister was given in a chance that she could be treated.  The nature of the holocaust is not pretty, but this is done in very good taste.  It also shows middle  schoolers listening to Eva speak.  The emotion in this documentary is much stronger than the photographs. The message of forgiving is for the victim and Eva's positive role modeling is powerful.  You might want to show just parts of the program. It would have value doing that also.

Kay Kuenzl-Stenerson
 Literacy Coach
 Merrill Middle School 

"We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say, 'It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.' Then there are those, who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes." ~ Fred Rogers

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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:03:52 -0400
From: "Diane Baker" <DBaker at ctreg14.org>
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thank you so much for this link. I am teaching my fifth graders about this now and reading Number the Stars. The documentary sounds a little graphic. Do you think it is appropriate for fifth graders?

diane

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Subject: [MOSAIC] Holocaust resource

Last night, I just watched a Documentary that I got through Netflix titled Forgiving Dr. Mengele.  This is about a surviving twin who as a victim found peace by forgiving.  I thought it was so powerful because Eva Kor looks like anyone's grandma.  The story of what happens to twins at Auschwitz is told, but it also links what happened to real people who have had to live with it and to now.  Eva has a Holocaust museum in Terre Haute, Indiana.  And it was firebombed so kids can see that things still happen. But the theme that I thought was most important was how forgiveness is frees the victim and that good can come from evil  You might want to check it out.  Eva also has a book, titled below.
Click below and it will take you to Amazon.
Forgiving Dr. Mengele <http://oasd-mail/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.amazon.com/Forgiving-Dr-Mengele-Cheri-Pugh/dp/B000MAFXQO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8%26s=dvd%26qid=1209047308%26sr=8-2>  Echoes from Auschwitz: Dr. Mengele's Twins: The story of Eva and Miriam Mozes <http://oasd-mail/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.amazon.com/Echoes-Auschwitz-Mengeles-Twins-Miriam/dp/0964380765/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8%26s=books%26qid=1209047308%26sr=8-3>  by Eva Moses Kor and Mary Wright (Paperback)
Kay Kuenzl-Stenerson
 Literacy Coach
 Merrill Middle School

"We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say, 'It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.' Then there are those, who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes." ~ Fred Rogers

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