The+Orphans+of+Normandy

1. From whose perspective is the story told? (A Jew? A Nazi? A survivor? A Righteous Gentile? A Descendant of a survivor?) What are the benefits of getting the story from this perspective? The book is told through drawings of orphaned children as the beaches of Normandy were invaded, the drawings are their stories of the struggle to survive. 2. What life lesson did you learn from this story? One girls story is how they survived in a mine, how it was dark and cold, they used firewood and straw to make their bedding and they could hear the bombs outside falling and destroying what they knew as their home. The Germans would frequently come through in search of people hiding. Yet through all of this she says that they felt safe! How amazing that a twelve year old girl can feel safe in one of the most dangerous situations our world has every experienced. 3. What did you like most about this book? I liked that it was told in their own words and told through their works of art. 4. How does this text relate, if at all, to //Parallel Journeys//? It shows how everyone had a struggle to survive, even young children. It also resembles Parallel Journeys because it is in their own words. 5. How could you use this book to teach the Holocaust? It would give students an idea of how children their age or close to their age struggled for their very life. 6. Would you recommend this book to a friend? Absolutely!

Jill Biggs