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Holocaust Art and Instructional Resources
Dear Colleagues,
I’m Margaret Lincoln, a library media specialist at Lakeview High School in Battle Creek, Michigan and a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Teacher Fellow, class of 2002. I am seeking your input and expertise as educators and invite you to contribute to a project involving Holocaust instruction and art.
Over the past several years, I have been privileged to meet and work with Dr. Miriam Brysk. Miriam is a Holocaust survivor and artist living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 2007, she published her memoir Amidst the Shadows of Trees in which she recounts her experience as a child in Poland and her family's arrival in the United States after the war. Throughout most of her adult life, Miriam (who earned a doctorate from Columbia University) worked as a researcher and professor of dermatology, microbiology and immunology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Upon her retirement from teaching in 2002, she returned for the first time to the ghettos and camps of Eastern Europe. Throughout the trip, images of her lost family kept entering back into her consciousness, while childhood fears reemerged as nightmares.
Miriam's art career was launched through that return trip to Eastern Europe. Her art utilizes original photographs and computer graphics technology. The resulting works are a reflection of Miriam's own life and stories of friends and relatives who perished during the Holocaust. Miriam feels a deep inner need to portray the suffering of these people, to restore to them their dignity as Jews, to honor and remember them.
Miriam is now engaged in compiling a collection of her art to be published in book form. She would like to include in this publication curriculum support material so that Holocaust educators could incorporate these artworks into their teaching in a meaningful way. Such a publication could then be marketed as both a collection of artwork and as an instructional resource.
To better acquaint you with Miriam's work, the following materials may be accessed online:
-- Exhibit "In A Confined Silence"
-- Exhibit "Children of the Holocaust" Because Slideshare is classified as a social networking site, it may be blocked in some school districts. If you are unable to access the site, I can email you both PowerPoint presentations.
-- The Detroit Jewish News featured an article about Miriam's art at the Holocaust Memorial Center.
-- The Battle Creek Enquirer provided coverage for a Miriam Brysk exhibit in fall 2008. Her art was on display at the Davidson Gallery of Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek.
-- Miriam's website gives additional information.
Please consider developing a Holocaust instructional lesson plan utilizing the art of Miriam Brysk for inclusion in her forthcoming book. A lesson plan template is available but you are not obligated to follow this exact format. Your lesson may be edited. I would like to receive first drafts of lessons by January 30, 2009, sent electronically or through US mail.
I look forward to working with you and appreciate your involvement in this important Holocaust education project.
Best wishes for the upcoming holiday season and for the remainder of the school year 2008-2009!
Margaret Lincoln
Lakeview HS Library
15060 South Helmer Road
Battle Creek, MI 49015
(tel) 269-565-3730
email: mlincoln@lakeviewspartans.org
http://remc12.k12.mi.us/lhslib
Odette was born in Paris in 1931. She was interned at Beaune-La-Roland, probably separated from her parents, where her hair was shorn off. She was transferred to Drancy and then deported to Auschwitz on August 21, 1942 on convoy 22. Odette is pictured here with other children at Auschwitz.
In memory of the Vilna Jews who were shot in Ponar by the Elinsatzgruppe.
I’m Margaret Lincoln, a library media specialist at Lakeview High School in Battle Creek, Michigan and a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Teacher Fellow, class of 2002. I am seeking your input and expertise as educators and invite you to contribute to a project involving Holocaust instruction and art.
Over the past several years, I have been privileged to meet and work with Dr. Miriam Brysk. Miriam is a Holocaust survivor and artist living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 2007, she published her memoir Amidst the Shadows of Trees in which she recounts her experience as a child in Poland and her family's arrival in the United States after the war. Throughout most of her adult life, Miriam (who earned a doctorate from Columbia University) worked as a researcher and professor of dermatology, microbiology and immunology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Upon her retirement from teaching in 2002, she returned for the first time to the ghettos and camps of Eastern Europe. Throughout the trip, images of her lost family kept entering back into her consciousness, while childhood fears reemerged as nightmares.
Miriam's art career was launched through that return trip to Eastern Europe. Her art utilizes original photographs and computer graphics technology. The resulting works are a reflection of Miriam's own life and stories of friends and relatives who perished during the Holocaust. Miriam feels a deep inner need to portray the suffering of these people, to restore to them their dignity as Jews, to honor and remember them.
Miriam is now engaged in compiling a collection of her art to be published in book form. She would like to include in this publication curriculum support material so that Holocaust educators could incorporate these artworks into their teaching in a meaningful way. Such a publication could then be marketed as both a collection of artwork and as an instructional resource.
To better acquaint you with Miriam's work, the following materials may be accessed online:
-- Exhibit "In A Confined Silence"
-- Exhibit "Children of the Holocaust" Because Slideshare is classified as a social networking site, it may be blocked in some school districts. If you are unable to access the site, I can email you both PowerPoint presentations.
-- The Detroit Jewish News featured an article about Miriam's art at the Holocaust Memorial Center.
-- The Battle Creek Enquirer provided coverage for a Miriam Brysk exhibit in fall 2008. Her art was on display at the Davidson Gallery of Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek.
-- Miriam's website gives additional information.
Please consider developing a Holocaust instructional lesson plan utilizing the art of Miriam Brysk for inclusion in her forthcoming book. A lesson plan template is available but you are not obligated to follow this exact format. Your lesson may be edited. I would like to receive first drafts of lessons by January 30, 2009, sent electronically or through US mail.
I look forward to working with you and appreciate your involvement in this important Holocaust education project.
Best wishes for the upcoming holiday season and for the remainder of the school year 2008-2009!
Margaret Lincoln
Lakeview HS Library
15060 South Helmer Road
Battle Creek, MI 49015
(tel) 269-565-3730
email: mlincoln@lakeviewspartans.org
http://remc12.k12.mi.us/lhslib
Odette was born in Paris in 1931. She was interned at Beaune-La-Roland, probably separated from her parents, where her hair was shorn off. She was transferred to Drancy and then deported to Auschwitz on August 21, 1942 on convoy 22. Odette is pictured here with other children at Auschwitz.
In memory of the Vilna Jews who were shot in Ponar by the Elinsatzgruppe.
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Permalink Reply by Ernie Easter on -
Very powerful images! Thank you so much for sharing. I will put together some of my things and also spread the word to others that I know who might be interested.
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Permalink Reply by Niki McCaffrey on -
Brilliant images here. Thank you from the UK
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Permalink Reply by MLincoln on -
Thank you very much for your message, Niki. Miriam Brysk will be pleased to know that her art is being viewed by teachers and students far and wide. Please also consider sending us a lesson which uses these very powerful art works!
- Margaret
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Permalink Reply by Ann on -
What a good experience, and who has written books that help us know what was that terrible part of our history I would love to know how to buy your books and tell us when you publish this new book, thanks for sharing those memories.
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