AP/JWST 3688 3.00

Holocaust Literature of Children and Youth

This course analyzes themes and art relevant to children and youth in adolescents’ and children’s Holocaust literature: novels, picture books and poetry. Participants apply cognitive and affective modes of perception—ways of knowing, perceiving, and sensing— to read through the eyes of the main characters, predominantly children and youth.  Themes include growing up/down in ghettos and concentration camps­, creativity and imagination as resilience and resistance, hidden children, not getting to say goodbye.

“This was the ghetto: where children grew down instead of up.” (Spinelli, Milkweed, 2003, 153).

Cross-listed to AP/CCY 3688 3.00