Hi Douglas, great talking to you this afternoon. I will be intouch later this week and I look forward to meeting you in New York. Brittney has only great things to say about you. I am also excited to share stories […]

The minute I finished Olga’s book, I called both my department chair and our school principal and requested this book be added to our Holocaust unit as a must read book. It is a powerful story.

Hi Norma, I agree with yu post that Olga wrote with a clear, factual, and easy to understand voice. Her words painted a clear picture of the events that took place at Auschwitz. Although I spent most of my time in […]

Trina, Like you, I feel that there is so much I have to learn. Each of the three books provided different perspectives and I am looking forward to some rich discussions with one another.
Since I am not a person […]

After having finished On Australian Soil, I spent many hours reflecting on Sondra and her feelings towards the students in her class. I had a difficult time understanding where she was coming from. She didn’t know […]

So many times as I write, I cringe, I don’t sound very knowledgeable and wish I had the gift of producing work that reflects my education. I am not a deep thinker, but rather a doer and a motivator. At the end of […]

Reply #1 On Austrian Soil

Ashley, I am looking forward to meeting you and sharing conversations about the discussions that go on inside a classroom. Before reading On Austrian Soil, I read a few of the […]

I agree with Lisa that Hoffman’s unsettling how and why questions on page 226 in After Such Knowledge , create a natural starting point for discussing the Holocaust as well as other such atrocities. With our […]

As Peggy was sharing a candle lighting experience in Auschwitz with Eva Kor, a survivor of the Camp, I reflected on a similar experience I had in Ravesbruck where we lit candles for our leader’s grandmother who […]

Post #1 On Austrian Soil

The Book On Austrian Soil reads like a novel, one I do not want to put down. Will Sondra return to Innsbruck in February? Will Sondra and Margret develop a deeper friendship and Christa […]

I will admit that responding to After Such Knowledge was not an easy task. I read the books in sections underlying several passages, reflecting on Hoffman’s words, and the margins are surrounded with definitions […]

Eva Hoffman’s insights as a second generation Holocaust survivor in After Such Knowledge were compelling. I took many notes in the margins of the pages and had several conversations with my husband over different […]

Hi Neighbor, I live in San Diego and teach at Grossmont High School in El Cajon. I have not written my intro yet, because I am a bit overwhelmed, but excited to meet such a wonderfully divese group of educators. […]