The fictional story of King Matt teaches children the importance of hope and good character despite evil, and when children are given the context of the author and history, the book comes to life as a lesson in the Holocaust. This novel is written by Janusz Korczak, a Holocaust victim, who bravely went with the children of the orphanage in Warsaw that he oversaw into Treblinka where he was murdered. Morgenstern tells the story of Hanna Gofrit, a Polish Jew, who survived the Holocaust due to a brave Polish family who concealed her. I Wanted to Fly Like a Butterfly by Naomi Morgenstern: The narrative goes back and forth between Hana’s suitcases and the journey of its contents in Japan. The children’s book includes pictures of the contents found in the suitcase and the story behind the mystery of its owner and her experiences in Auschwitz. This small novel centers around the contents of a suitcase once owned by a small Czechoslovakian girl, Hana. The author is able to condense the mature and complex persecution of the Jews into simpler and more relatable content for smaller children. This novel examines the persecution of a young boy and his family during the rise of Hitler in Germany. These themes will be an important foundation for later Holocaust education. Elementary school aged children should be asked about the value of diversity and the dangers of prejudice and bias. This allows students to relate to the content in a personal way as well as begin to understand the Holocaust through the lens of a child. The worst is yet to come.Students can first be exposed to the Holocaust through short personal narratives, both fiction and nonfiction, that are centered around children of the Holocaust. Her strong will and faith allow Elli to manage and adjust, but what she doesn’t know is that this is only the beginning. Then she and her family are forced to leave their house behind to move into a crowded ghetto, where privacy becomes a luxury of the past and food becomes a scarcity. First Elli can no longer attend school, have possessions, or talk to her neighbors. A life in which Elli could lie and daydream for hours that she was a beautiful and elegant celebrated poet.īut these adolescent daydreams quickly darken in March 1944, when the Nazis invade Hungary. It wasn’t long ago that Elli led a normal life that included family, friends, school, and thoughts about boys. A remarkable memoir, I Have Lived a Thousand Years is a story of cruelty and suffering, but at the same time a story of hope, faith, perseverance, and love. So wonders thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann as she fights for her life in a Nazi concentration camp. What is death all about? What is life all about?
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