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Eileen Angelini started the topic Such Courage and Strength in the forum Five Chimneys 2023 Summer Seminar Responses – OPTIONAL 1 year, 1 month ago
I am more than halfway through *Five Chimneys* and I so greatly admire Olga’s courage and strength to write her testimony in 1947. For a number of reasons, it could not have been easy for her. She definitely paved the way for others to share their stories and for this, I am tremendously grateful!
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Eileen Angelini replied to the topic Looking at Perl & Krug Together in the forum Looking at Perl & Krug: due JUNE 15 (or earlier) 1 year, 1 month ago
Heather – So agree with you about generational stories. Would love to do a student activity that encourages the writing of inter-generational stories.
Mary – Although I continue to miss my mother deeply, I have been connecting with her younger sister who, as opposed to my mother, is mentally sharp as a tack but physically disabled and legally…[Read more]
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Eileen Angelini replied to the topic Re-Reading Sondra Perl's *On Austrian Soil" in the forum On Austrian Soil 2023 Summer Seminar Responses: due MAY 30 1 year, 1 month ago
Sondra – So glad that you were able to visit with Margret and Gert. I have always felt that true friendships endure over all obstacles. I think this is truly the case for you and Margret.
Mary – Yes, let’s continue to be inspired by Sondra during these gloomy times. My mother used to always say that “rain is liquid sunshine.” I take it a step…[Read more]
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Eileen Angelini replied to the topic Response to Nora Krug's Belonging in the forum Belonging 2023 Summer Seminar Responses: due JUNE 8 (or earlier) 1 year, 1 month ago
Yes, I still wish to be a children’s book illustrator. With COVID-19, I did finally break out my art easel and start painting again. If you like, I will share photos when we meet in NYC next week. In 2016, I was finishing the editing of my book, *The Fairy Tales of Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy.* As the d’Aulnoy’s fairy tales are a challenging r…[Read more]
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Eileen Angelini started the topic Read the Entire Book in the forum Becoming a Holocaust Educator 2023 Summer Seminar Responses: due JUNE 18 (or earlier) 1 year, 1 month ago
So inspiring that I kept reading and reading! I was especially touched by student responses, see for example the student poem on guilt, pp. 154-155. Also not to be overlooked is the student quote on pp. 168-169, “I have been held in the hands of history, stared into the tinted window of suffering, clasped the hand of death, been inspired by…[Read more]
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Eileen Angelini started the topic Looking at Perl & Krug Together in the forum Looking at Perl & Krug: due JUNE 15 (or earlier) 1 year, 2 months ago
Through writing and creative expression, both Perl and Krug have addressed head on the dark shadow cast on their families by the Holocaust. With great sensitivity, they both have demonstrated how the trauma of one generation haunts the next. As someone of mixed race, Native American and White, I can relate to their struggles and greatly admire how…[Read more]
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Eileen Angelini started the topic Re-Reading Sondra Perl's *On Austrian Soil" in the forum On Austrian Soil 2023 Summer Seminar Responses: due MAY 30 1 year, 2 months ago
With my graduate training in narratology, I always have liked to compare my notes from the first reading of a book to a second. Like the first reading, *On Austrian Soil” brought out a myriad of reactions, both from my educator side and from that of a Catholic raised under Vatican II.
My first post from 2021 was from my educator side and the two…[Read more]
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Eileen Angelini started the topic Response to Nora Krug's Belonging in the forum Belonging 2023 Summer Seminar Responses: due JUNE 8 (or earlier) 1 year, 2 months ago
As someone who had wanted to be a children’s book illustrator but whose father had feared she would be a poor starving artist, I knew that reading Nora Krug’s *Belonging* was going to be incredibly moving. As I was drawn into the Krug’s search for understanding her family’s history, I could not help but think back to an experience I had in the…[Read more]
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Eileen Angelini started the topic Bonjour de la part d'Eileen/Hello from Eileen in the forum 2023 Summer Seminar Participant Introductions: due MAY 15 1 year, 2 months ago
Bonjour tout le monde/Hello everyone: My name is Eileen Angelini and since 1998, I have been working with survivors, hidden children, members of the French Resistance, Righteous Gentiles, and members of the U.S. Military, recording their testimonies to use in the French- and Spanish-language classrooms. One of my more successful projects with…[Read more]
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Eileen Angelini replied to the topic Always the "perfect" student in the forum We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom – 2021 Summer Seminar Responses 3 years, 1 month ago
Dear Ashley: Thank you so much for your posting. Like you, I have always loved learning. However, as my mother was a teacher in the school district, I wore the mantle of “if none of the students raise their hands, you can count on Maureen’s daughter to know the answer.” The result: I am so incredibly use to “going first” that even though I…[Read more]
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Eileen Angelini replied to the topic I don't want you to feel like a light bulb in the forum We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom – 2021 Summer Seminar Responses 3 years, 1 month ago
Dear Stephanie, Barb, and Bridgett: When Scott said to me, “I don’t want you to feel like a light bulb,” it was the first time that I realized how hard it was for him to be one of only a handful of persons of color at a predominantly white high school (yes, there were some students who hailed from Puerto Rico because their families came to…[Read more]
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Eileen Angelini replied to the topic I don't want you to feel like a light bulb in the forum We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom – 2021 Summer Seminar Responses 3 years, 1 month ago
Version 2.0 with a few important edits. Please read this version.
Growing up in a family with a mother who was a high school science teacher and a father who was a college administrator, academic success was emphasized and expected. In many ways, I felt like Bettina L. Love when she writes “school was our job” (42). As there were few persons of…[Read more]
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Eileen Angelini replied to the topic I don't want you to feel like a light bulb in the forum We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom – 2021 Summer Seminar Responses 3 years, 1 month ago
Version 2.0 with a few important additions. Please read this version.:
Growing up in a family with a mother who was a high school science teacher and a father who was a college administrator, academic success was emphasized and expected. In many ways, I felt like Bettina L. Love when she writes “school was our job” (42). As there were few per…[Read more]
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Eileen Angelini started the topic I don't want you to feel like a light bulb in the forum We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom – 2021 Summer Seminar Responses 3 years, 2 months ago
Growing up in a family with a mother who was a high school science teacher and a father who was a college administrator, academic success was emphasized and expected. In many ways, I felt like Bettina L. Love when she writes “school was our job” (42). As there were few persons of color in my elementary and middle schools, I was definitely…[Read more]
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Eileen Angelini replied to the topic Kicking Against the Pricks in the Ozarks in the forum We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom – 2021 Summer Seminar Responses 3 years, 2 months ago
Dear Stephanie: I am inspired by your strength of character, especially when you write “It means using my privilege, accepting discomfort, and more that I still have to learn.”
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Eileen Angelini replied to the topic Who am I to create a “home place?” in the forum We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom – 2021 Summer Seminar Responses 3 years, 2 months ago
Dear Sandy: I share your concerns and fears. I keep reading and re-reading pp. 64-65, especially when Bettina L. Love writes “This is why homeplace is needed, because it is a place that honors the emotional, physical, spiritual, and financial struggle of living under what hooks calls ‘the brutal reality of racial apartheid’ in the US and finding…[Read more]
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Eileen Angelini replied to the topic Eileen's First Post on *On Austrian Soil* in the forum On Austrian Soil – 2021 Summer Seminar Responses 3 years, 12 months ago
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Eileen Angelini replied to the topic How can we be a full human being in the classroom? in the forum On Austrian Soil – 2021 Summer Seminar Responses 4 years ago
Dear Heather: As you continue reading On Austrian Soil, I think you will be deeply moved by Sondra’s meeting with Margret’s in-laws. Sondra beautifully describes the interaction and I wonder if an appropriate writing assignment would be to ask students to rewrite the scene from the perspective of Gert, Margret, Anna, or Luis Fessler.
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Eileen Angelini replied to the topic Andrea's Letter (pg. 117) in the forum On Austrian Soil – 2021 Summer Seminar Responses 4 years ago
Andrea: I echo Melissa’s comments. A wise friend in graduate school once advised me to be kind to myself so I can be kind to those around me. Later in life as I worked with students and then with my own child, I recognized the importance of taking care of myself so I can take care of those around me (think the oxygen mask on the airplane: you need…[Read more]
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Eileen Angelini replied to the topic Eileen's Second Post on *On Austrian Soil* in the forum On Austrian Soil – 2021 Summer Seminar Responses 4 years ago
P.S. How lovely also to learn of the wonderful accomplishments of Sondra’s students (p. 215).
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