Comparing these two books, both beautiful and so unique in scope and structure, bring me to understand more of what I tried to articulate earlier – that the most essential purpose of education is to help us know ourselves, to make possible our own appreciation of our gifts and abilities, and to have the confidence to wrangle them in service of our…[Read more]

Thank you for bringing this book to me. I loved the way the graphics mirrored the text, lighter and darker pages, the snow, the remarkable whimsy of hot water bottles with which Krug juxtaposed the seriousness of her subject, the inevitable vagueness of memory and history transformed into everyday objects and photographs. I had not taken the time…[Read more]

I began reading On Austrian Soil the day it arrived at my door, but it has taken me until tonight to finish it. I’d read a bit and then have to set it aside. Though the book challenges us to consider the Holocaust in new ways, what made it so difficult for me was the approach to pedagogy. What does it mean to be a teacher? I have always thought I…[Read more]

Hey you all – this is such an exciting opportunity for me for a few reasons. I am currently a middle school English teacher in an urban district in Lexington, Kentucky. I also work with our statewide Holocaust education initiative with the University of Kentucky. Our state passed a mandate in 2018 that all middle and high school students should…[Read more]