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| Classroom book sets are available for a four-week loan period free of charge. Each set contains 30 copies of the book, a related video and a binder of additional resources and readings. Pick-up and delivery or courier costs are the responsibility of the teacher. For further information or to book a Classroom Book Set, please contact 604.264.0499 or info@vhec.org | ||
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night The VHEC is pleased to announce the launch of a classroom set of Elie Wiesel’s Night. Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is a terrifying record of Wiesel’s memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and the despair of a deeply religious Jew confronting the inhumanity of man. Recommended for Grades 11-12. The Night classroom book set has been donated in honour of Leonore Freiman (z”l). |
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Hana's Suitcase Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine is an award-winning book and accessible Holocaust text for young people. In March 2000, a child's suitcase arrives from Auschwitz at the tiny Holocaust Education Centre in Tokyo. Painted on the side are a name, Hana Brady, a birthdate and the word "Waisenkind" (orphan). Spurred on by the children at the Centre, the curator embarks on a relentless search from Tokyo to Prague to Toronto to uncover the story of Hana and her fate at the hands of the Nazis. The book set is accompanied by a teachers' guide produced by the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre and a CBC documentary about the story. Recommended for Grades 5 and up. Generously sponsored by Susan Quastel, in honour of her parents Aaron Israel Ricardo and Rebecca Nunes Nabarro Ricardo, and by Vancouver Kidsbooks and Second Story Press. |
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The Diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl has become a classic since its initial publication in 1946. Anne Frank kept a diary for two years while in hiding in Holland during WWII. It records the thoughts and expressions of a young girl living under extraordinary conditions, whose life ended tragically at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at age 15. This classroom set includes a teacher's guide, Anne Frank in the World. Recommended for Grades 7-8.
The Outside the Attic Walls Discovery Kit complements the study of this book. |
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The Old Brown Suitcase The Old Brown Suitcase is a prize-winning novel for young adults by Lillian Boraks-Nemetz. A classroom set of this highly acclaimed work includes a portfolio of photograph cards, a video testimony from the author (21 minutes) and a literature unit developed by Lorraine Gannon, Odie Kaplan and Ben Pare. Recommended for Grades 6-7. |
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MAUS: A Classroom Kit MAUS: A Classroom Kit provides high school teachers with a class set of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning comic books about the Holocaust. Derived from personal interviews and historical research, MAUS engages the adolescent reader. The kit includes an interactive CD-ROM, The Complete Maus , and a video interview with the author, Serious Comics . There is also a MAUS Teacher's Guide available. Recommended for Grade 8 and above. Sponsored by the Krell Family Book Fund & Susan Quastel. |
