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World Jewish News
Holocaust Fund and Center Present New Books
02.01.2009
The Holocaust Fund and Center have presented three books, two textbooks and one novel.
The "'Crystal Night': Lesson of History" textbook, written by the researchers of the "Holocaust" Research and Education Center, was presented first. During the presentation, the Director of the Holocaust Education Department of the Holocaust Center Leonid Pyatetsky noted that this book can easily be used in school, because "its material works well with the general history [taught]." The co-chairman of the Center, Ilya Altaman, in turn, underscored that this is not just a momentary book, published in time for a certain occcasion (in 2008, 70 years had passed since the Crystal Night), but can be used in preparing the Week of Tolerance, which takes place yearly from 9th to 16th of November.
Next, the Coordinator of the Educational Programs of the Holocaust Center Elena Belenkaya presented a textbook soon to be printed, dedicated to the Auschwitz concentration camp. She underscored that it was based on three kinds of primary sources: eyewitness accounts, documents and photographs, and literary works, which allows for a number of perspectives, both inside and outside.
The highlight of the evening was the presentation of John Boyne's novel "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas," the Russian translation of which has recently been published by the "Phantom Press" publishing company. Its focus is, essentiallu, showing the Holocaust through the eyes of a nine year old boy The publishing company's General Director Alla Shteynman said during her presentation that the first reviewer of the book literally wrote the following: "This book should be published in a million copies and given to all the school libraries, so that the children know what kind of a world existed and had to be lived in before."
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