I’ve posted some pictures from a field trip we took yesterday. As yesterday was Yom Hashoah, it was a perfect day to schedule a field trip to the Dallas Holocaust Museum. If you are familiar with the DHM, it’s a small museum. Becuase of it’s size, they have chosen to focus on just one date, April 19, 1943. So in addition to attending on Yom […] View
I’ve posted some pictures from a field trip we took yesterday. As yesterday was Yom Hashoah, it was a perfect day to schedule a field trip to the Dallas Holocaust Museum. If you are familiar with the DHM, it’s a small museum. Becuase of it’s size, they have chosen to focus on just one date, April 19, 1943. So in addition to attending on Yom…[Read more]
Pictured by a boxcar that transported Jewish prisoners to Auschwitz: Dallas Holocaust Museum docent, Roselin Goldstein, UNT pre-service teachers: Heidi Strickland, Megan Fruia, Ashley Zara, Rebecca Smith, Alex Soltero, Julie Gowin, and Dr. Chelleye Crow.
Pictured with Dallas Holocaust Museum docent, Roselin Goldstein, are UNT pre-service teachers: (left to right facing the camera) Alex Soltero, Cindy Adame, Rebecca Smith.
On April 19, 2012, Yom HaShoah, a day for remembering the tragedy of the Holocaust, Dr. Carol Revelle’s content literacy class visited the Dallas Holocaust Museum, the culminating event for a model text set on the Holocaust. The pre-service teachers toured the museum and met Mike Jacobs, a Holocaust survivor from Poland. Jacobs’ parents and sib…[Read more]
Jack is from Poland, where he was part of the resistance, stealing from a munitions factory. He was in various ghettos and concentration camps including Kielce, Auschwitz, and Dachau, and a death march. He was liberated by American soldiers and came to the US in 1949.
A copy of The Sunflower was donated the University of North Texas Library as a thank you for the 2011 summer institute provided by the Holocaust Memorial Library.