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Voice/Vision Interviews Inspire Children's Books

nospam@example.com (Jamie Wraight) — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:32:25 -0400

A group of junior high school students from Washington has created a collection of children's books inspired by the testimony of those who survived the Holocaust.

The Cavelero Mid High students used the Voice/Vision online collection to research the Holocaust. Moved by the personal stories of survival they encountered on the site, the students wrote and illustrated children's books based upon the interviews they studied.

The storybooks, with titles like "Tamara the Cricket" and "Motzi the Mouse," use illustrations and symbolic language to recount the survivors' stories in a manner appropriate for young readers.

The budding authors' English teacher had the finished stories professionally bound and has entrusted Voice/Vision Curator Dr. Jamie Wraight to see that the books reach the survivors whose accounts inspired their creation. Along with the storybooks, the student authors also sent photographs and letters addressed to the survivors. In the letters, students wrote of their admiration for the survivors' courage and thanked them for sharing their stories, and some wrote that they hoped to correspond with the survivor they had written about.

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Podcast Produced by Middle School Students - Inspired by Voice/Vision

nospam@example.com (Janet Elkins) — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:09:55 -0400

Listen to the podcast:

The Holocaust (mp3 - 17.14MB)

This podcast was produced by students at Warren G. Harding Middle School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as an eighth-grade reading/language arts project. Their teacher is Victoria Monacelli, and she wrote to Voice/Vision to ask if her students could use sections of the interviews on this website for a monthly podcast project. "I incorporate a tremendous amount of technology into the curriculum in order to engage students who very often have not been engaged in their own learning for many years. As a part of my literacy program my students produce a montly educational podcast show." (More student-produced podcasts are available at http://www.phila.k12.pa.us/schools/harding/hardingpodcastpage.html.)

Although it is about twelve minutes long, their podcast represents hours of research, recording, editing, composing music, and writing narrative on the part of the students, many of whom had never learned about the Holocaust. They were inspired by the Voice/Vision website and its audio of survivors' stories, and we, in turn, are inspired by them.

Voice/Vision Summer '05 Newsletter Online (PDF)

nospam@example.com (Janet Elkins) — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:47:00 -0400

Newsletter

This issue contains articles on several recent events hosted by UM-Dearborn, including the January advance screening of the landmark documentary aired on PBS, "Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State," and the Annual Holocaust and Armenian Genocide Commemoration on April 8 co-sponsored by the Voice/Vision Archive.