My Secret Camera |
Publication Information
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Author: Smith, Frank Dabba |
Illustrator: Grossman, Mendel (Photo.) |
Title: My Secret Camera |
Date: 2000 |
Publisher: Harcourt |
City: San Diego, CA |
ISBN, paperback: 0-15-202306-2 |
ISBN, hardback: |
Recommended audience:
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
ESOL:
Yes |
Family:
Yes |
Young Adult:
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Picture:
Yes |
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
photodocumentary, photographic essay, easy reading, nonfiction
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HSE Descriptor(s):
social studies
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Summary: |
As a young man in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland, Mendel Grossman, secretly took hundreds of photographs to document the miserable life of the people in the ghetto and their struggles for survival. Simple text accompanies the photographs. |
Teaching Ideas: |
This book belongs in text sets about WW II, the Holocaust, photography, or survival. It would work especially well with The Children We Remember. Look in the library for A Vanished World by Roman Visniak, another photographer of ghetto life during the Nazis. The text is very easy, accessible for low level readers. Students may want to discuss the "stories" that photos tell and how they preserve history. The illustrations are haunting. Both the introduction and the note about Grossman's life are worth reading to learners. Look at some of the excellent Holocaust web sites to learn the full story of what happened to these people. (www.ushmm.org/) |
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