Here are this week’s historical highlights, including some excellent articles (don’t skip the first one!) and intriguing recommendations. They touch on the Holocaust, the FBI, The Wizard of Oz, the Vatican, and of course books!
This is a powerful article by a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust; now 93 and living in Israel he writes, “Given what I’ve learned over my lifetime I would, first, urge future generations of Europeans to remember my generation as we really were, not as they may wish us to have been. We had all the same vices and weaknesses as today’s young people do: most of us were neither heroes nor monsters.”
I also enjoyed reading about the FBI recovering a pair of ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz movie that were stolen 13 years ago.
Even if you’re not a teacher you might like these tips for using primary sources with young students.
Here’s a peek into the work of the head librarian and archivist at the Vatican.
In this post Catherine Batac Walder describes her search for the stairs that Louisa Musgrove falls down in Jane Austen’s Persuasion.
Let’s end with some recommendations for reading and viewing.(I haven’t read/seen any of these yet, but I’m intrigued.)
- Twelve novels of alternate history
- Three books about books
- A new movie about a bookshop in an English town in 1959