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NCSS Notable Trade Book Lesson Plan Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto Written by Susan Goldman Rubin

Deborah Morowski (Auburn University)
Theresa McCormick (Auburn University)

Social Studies Research and Practice

ISSN: 1933-5415

Article publication date: 1 November 2014

Issue publication date: 1 November 2014

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Abstract

This lesson uses Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto to introduce students to a true story of a Catholic, Polish social worker who saved the lives of thousands of Jewish children during World War II by relocating them. Students are asked to consider Irena’s actions and her motives. Students then are introduced to the Kindertransport, a series of rescue missions of Jewish children from Nazi Germany, by reading the stories of children who were involved in the event. To help students understand the relocation of children during World War II was not an isolated incident in history, students examine the Pedro Pan Airlift of 1959-1960 in order to compare and contrast the event to the Kindertransport of World War II.

Citation

Morowski, D. and McCormick, T. (2014), "NCSS Notable Trade Book Lesson Plan Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto Written by Susan Goldman Rubin", Social Studies Research and Practice, Vol. 9 No. 3, pp. 169-174. https://doi.org/10.1108/SSRP-03-2014-B0012

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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