Implementing Shoah-Themed Literature into Teaching with the Example of <i>The Boy From Block 66: A WW2 Jewish Holocaust Survival True Story</i>

Abstract

In this contribution, through literary content analysis, I examine the novel The Boy From Block 66: A WW2 Jewish Holocaust Survival True Story (2023). I am convinced that it should be included in literature classes dealing with modern historical issues, especially pertaining to the Shoah. For two excerpts from this novel, I present several questions and tasks, the aim of which is to guide pupils to an adequate understanding of the events of the Shoah. I am convinced that this narrative is the one in which the events that relate to the Shoah are presented authentically and in an attractive way for young readers, and whose presentation leads to a certain de-abstracting of these ideas.

Keywords

• <i>The Boy From Block 66: A WW2 Jewish Holocaust Survival True Story</i>
• Limor Regev
• literary content analysis
• literary education
• teaching
• excerpt