Salvaged pages. Young writers' diaries of the Holocaust - A. Zapruder, autograf

Salvaged pages / Pagini salvate Young writers' diaries of the Holocaust Alexandra Zapruder - contine o dedicatie si autograful autoarei Editura: Yale University Data aparitie: 2002 Limba: Engleza Coperta: Cartonata (hardcover) Numar volume: 1 Numar pagini: 482 Dimensiuni: 240 x 170 mm Greutate: 1.00 kg This stirring collection of diaries written by young people, aged twelve to twenty-two years, during the Holocaust has been fully revised and updated. Some of the writers were refugees, others were in hiding or passing as non-Jews, some were imprisoned in ghettos, and nearly all perished before liberation. This seminal National Jewish Book Award winner preserves the impressions, emotions, and eyewitness reportage of young people whose accounts of daily events and often unexpected thoughts, ideas, and feelings serve to deepen and complicate our understanding of life during the Holocaust. The second paperback edition includes a new preface by Alexandra Zapruder examining the book’s history and impact. Simultaneously, an enhanced e-book incorporates a wealth of new content in a variety of media, including photographs of the writers and their families, images of the original diaries, artwork made by the writers, historical documents, glossary terms, maps, survivor testimony (some available for the first time), and video of the author teaching key passages. In addition, an in-depth, interdisciplinary curriculum in history, literature, and writing developed by the author and a team of teachers, working in cooperation with the educational organization Facing History and Ourselves, is now available to support use of the book in middle- and high-school classrooms. Alexandra Zapruder (born 1969) is the author and editor of Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust. which won the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category in 2002. The book is a collection of 15 diaries of young writers who lived during the Holocaust. Her grandfather was Abraham Zapruder, who took a twenty-six second home movie of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination — now known as the Zapruder film. Work and career In 2005, Zapruder wrote and co-produced a documentary film based on her book with MTV director Lauren Lazin. "I'm Still Here: Real Diaries of Teenagers Who Lived During The Holocaust," debuted on MTV in 2005 and was nominated for two Emmy awards. In 2015, Salvaged Pages was reissued in a second paperback edition with updates, corrections, and new information. A multimedia e-book version was also published that same year and includes visual images of the diaries and their writers, interviews, glossary terms, maps, and other valuable information for educators, students, and the general public. Zapruuder is the author of the 2016 book Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film.