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‘Hide and Seek: Stories of Survival’: Solving the Problem of the Pencil

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In this chapter, Lisa Phillips explores the challenges of creating a Holocaust education programme to primary school–aged students within a museum context. Focusing on the hurdles of presenting young students with difficult and challenging material and employing best pedagogical practice, Phillips examines a programme designed at the Jewish Holocaust Centre, Melbourne, targeting children aged 10–12 years, and investigates whether it is possible for primary-aged students to connect in a meaningful way to Holocaust studies.

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  1. 1.

    Josephine Poole and Angela Barrett, Anne Frank (Great Britain, 2007).

  2. 2.

    JHC Mission Statement [online] [cited December 2016]. Available at: http://www.jhc.org.au/about-the-centre.html

  3. 3.

    Australia, with a Jewish population of some 110,000, is reputed to have the largest number of Holocaust survivors, per capita, in the diaspora, and the Jewish Holocaust Centre is blessed with an aging cohort of some 26 Holocaust survivors, many of whom are child survivors, who deliver testimony at the Centre on a rostered basis each week.

  4. 4.

    Lionel Kochan, ‘Life over death’, Jewish Chronicle, Issue 6297, (December 1989).

  5. 5.

    Samuel Totten, ‘Should there be holocaust education for K-4 students? The answer is no,’ Social Studies and the Young Learner, 12 (1999); pp. 36–39.

  6. 6.

    Ibid., p. 38.

  7. 7.

    Simone Schweber, and Debbie Findling, Teaching the Holocaust [Los Angeles, 2007].

    Simone Schweber, ‘What happened to their pets? Third graders encounter the Holocaust’, Teachers College Record, October, 110(10), (2008) pp. 2073–2115.

  8. 8.

    Henry Maitles and Paula Cowan, P, “Why are we learning this?’ Does studying the Holocaust encourage better citizenship values?: Preliminary findings from Scotland’ Genocide Studies and Prevention, vol. 3, no. 3, (2008) pp. 341–352.

  9. 9.

    The JHC development team included the director of education, Lisa Phillips, head of collections, Jayne Josem, and education officers Tammy Reznik and Anatie Livnat.

  10. 10.

    Daniel Spock, ‘Imagination – A child’s gateway to engagement with the past’, in Lynn McRainey and John Russick (eds.), Connecting kids to history with museum exhibitions (California, 2010), p. 129.

  11. 11.

    Age appropriateness, USHMM [online] [cited May 2014]. Available at: https://www.ushmm.org/educators/teaching-about-the-holocaust/age-appropriateness

  12. 12.

    Orit Margaliot, Teaching the Holocaust Remembrance here and now, Agora, HTAV, p. 62 [online] [cited May 2016] Available at: http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/international_projects/australian_educators/article/1.pdf

  13. 13.

    Stacey Mann and Danny M. Cohen, ‘When is a boxcar not a boxcar: Designing for human rights learning’, Exhibitionist (Fall 2011), pp. 30–31.

  14. 14.

    The Australian education system is controlled by the different states in Australia. The JHC lies in the state of Victoria. Victorian Curriculum Foundation – 10 [online] [cited June 2016] Available at: http://victoriancurriculum.vcaa.vic.edu.au/

  15. 15.

    Nina Burridge, John Buchanan and Andrew Chodkiewicz, ‘Human rights and history education: An Australian study’, Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 39(3) (2014). [online] [cited June 2016]. Available from; https://doi.org/10.14221/ajte.2014v39n3.7

  16. 16.

    Ethical Capability, VCAA [online] [cited June 2016]. Available from; http://victoriancurriculum.vcaa.vic.edu.au/ethical-capability/introduction/scope-and-sequence

  17. 17.

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Age appropriateness [online] [cited May 2014]. Available at: https://www.ushmm.org/educators/teaching-about-the-holocaust/age-appropriateness

  18. 18.

    Paula Cowan and Henry Maitles, ‘Values and attitudes - positive and negative: A study of the impact of teaching the Holocaust on citizenship among Scottish 11–12 year olds’, Scottish Educational Review (2005) [online] [cited May 2016]. Available at: http://ser.stir.ac.uk/pdf/234.pdf

  19. 19.

    Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank (London, 1976).

  20. 20.

    Leslie Bedford, ‘Finding the story in history’, in Lynn McRainey and John Russick (eds.), Connecting kids to history with museum exhibitions (California, 2010), p. 108.

  21. 21.

    Ibid., p. 101.

  22. 22.

    Zlata Filipovic, Zlata’s diary: A child’s life in war torn Sarajevo (Chicago 1994).

  23. 23.

    Caitlin Gibson, ‘In her real-time Aleppo diary, Bana’s silence is more than a cliffhanger’, The age, 7.12.16 [online] [cited December 2016]. Available at: http://www.theage.com.au/world/in-her-realtime-aleppo-diary-girls-silence-is-more-than-a-mere-cliffhanger-20161206-gt5m3v.html

  24. 24.

    Victorian Curriculum [online] [cited June 2016]. Available at: http://victoriancurriculum.vcaa.vic.edu.au/

  25. 25.

    Sharon Shaffer, Never too young to connect to history: Cognitive development and learning, in Lynn McRainey and John Russick (eds.), Connecting kids to history with museum exhibitions (California, 2010), p. 44.

  26. 26.

    Morris Gleitzman, Once (Australia, 2005).

  27. 27.

    Morris Gleitzman, Then (Australia, 2008).

  28. 28.

    John Baird and Ian Mitchell (eds.) Improving the Quality of Teaching and Learning, (Melbourne, 1997).

  29. 29.

    Ian Mitchell., (Ed) Teaching for Effective Learning. The complete book of PEEL teaching procedures (Melbourne, 2007), pp. 184–185.

  30. 30.

    Leslie Bedford, Finding the story in history, p. 109.

  31. 31.

    Shrine of Remembrance, Student: Programs and bookings, Melbourne [online] [cited December 2016]. Available at: http://www.shrine.org.au/Education/Programs

    Immigration Museum, School Programs and Resources [online] [cited December 2016]. Available from; https://museumvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum/learning/school-programs-and-resources/

  32. 32.

    Mary Jane Taylor and Beth A. Twiss Houting, ‘Is it real? Kids and collection’, in Lynn McRainey and John Russick (eds.), Connecting kids to history with museum exhibitions (California, 2010), p. 248.

  33. 33.

    See Table 1.

  34. 34.

    Leslie Bedford, Finding the story in history, p. 106.

  35. 35.

    Halina Zylberman, Swimming under water (Melbourne, 2001).

  36. 36.

    ADL, Simulation activities should not be used, 2006 [online] [cited June 2016]. Available at: http://archive.adl.org/education/simulationinteachinghol.pdf

  37. 37.

    Samuel Totten, ‘Minimizing, simplifying, and “denying” the complexity and horror of the Holocaust: Using simulations in an attempt to convey historical experiences’, Social Education, 64(3), (2000) pp. 165–171.

  38. 38.

    Simone Schweber, ‘Simulating survival’, Curriculum Inquiry, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Summer, 2003), p. 142.

  39. 39.

    Ibid., p. 183.

  40. 40.

    Paula Cowan and Henry Maitles, Understanding and teaching Holocaust education (London 2017), p. 128.

  41. 41.

    Year 5 student responses Pilot 4 Hide and Seek: Stories of Survival, 11 September 2014.

  42. 42.

    Teacher reflections gathered from participatory schools, August 2014 – September 2016.

  43. 43.

    Teacher email (name withheld) to Lisa Philips, JHC Director of Education (3 November 2016).

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  1. Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom

    Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann

  2. University of the West of Scotland, Ayr, United Kingdom

    Paula Cowan

  3. National Holocaust Centre and Museum, Nottingham, United Kingdom

    James Griffiths

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Appendix 1: Entrance to JHC – Pillars of Witness Sculpture by Andrew Rogers

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Appendix 2: Teacher Survey of Pilot Schools

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Phillips, L. (2018). ‘Hide and Seek: Stories of Survival’: Solving the Problem of the Pencil. In: Szejnmann, CC., Cowan, P., Griffiths, J. (eds) Holocaust Education in Primary Schools in the Twenty-First Century. The Holocaust and its Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73099-8_12

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