'Forging Freedom': A hero of Holocaust speaks
HELEN GEORGE,Pocono Record Lifestyle Writer | Pocono Record
Acts of courage in the face of adversity can make a difference — even if that face belonged to Hitler.
Jaap Penraat, a Dutch Christian rescuer of Jews in Nazi-occupied Holland who never talked about his wartime heroism with his own children, is the subject of Hudson Talbott's "Forging Freedom" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, $).
Penraat will be the keynote speaker during the Holocaust remembrance program, a Yom Hashoah Commemoration, on Thursday at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania. Talbott will accompany Penraat.
"He was someone who couldn't stand by," said Tova Weiss, director of the Holocaust Museum and Resource Center of the Jewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania in Scranton. The federation is coordinating the program.
Penraat grew up in Amsterdam, one of the Jewish centers of Europe. A Christian son of a printer, he formed close friendships with his Jewish neighbors.
The Nazis came to power, burned books, arrested opponents and restricted travel and employment for Jews. Penraat chose to challenge Hitler's "final solution" of ridding Europe
Explore teaching activities to be used with Forging Freedom: A True Story of Heroism During the Holocaust, by Hudson Talbott.
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Forging Freedom: A True Story of Heroism During the Holocaust
by Hudson TalbottThe following discussion questions were provided by the author, Hudson Talbott.
What We Can Learn from the Holocaust?
By using a true adventure story such as Forging Freedom, students are given a solid introduction to the times in which the Holocaust took place, while following the daring course of action taken by a true-life hero. Jaap Penraat's story stands as a candle in the darkness, and the moral reasons for his actions are self-evident, but the more practical reason of "the golden rule" gives a stronger, easier-to-understand argument for shifting from the role of "bystander" to "doer." The goal would be to lead students to the understanding that by helping to make the world safer for others, we are making it safer for ourselves, as well.
Language Arts
Forging Freedom contains four classic character archetypes of both literature and history: hero, bully, victim, and bystander. After writing the four words on the blackboa
Jaap Penraat
Jaap Penraat
Jaap Penraat (nascido emem Amsterdã e morreu em em Catskill ) é um designer e designer de interiores holandês que se destacou na resistência de interiores na Holanda , salvando judeus durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial . O, o memorial Yad Vashem reconheceu Jaap Penraat como “ Justo entre as Nações ”.
Biografia
Profissão
Jaap Penraat foi um designer de interiores , designer e escultor , primeiro na Holanda e depois nos Estados Unidos, onde emigrou com a família em . Tanto na Holanda como nos Estados Unidos, adquiriu grande notoriedade, principalmente como designer . Por exemplo, ele projetou os trólebus de Amsterdã e o moedor de café holandês na Feira Internacional de Nova York de .
Sua atividade de resistência
Penraat não falou até muito tarde, no final de sua vida, sobre sua atividade como lutador da resistência. Em entrevistas, ele atribuiu suas ações a um espírito independente que adquiriu quando criança em Amsterdã por meio do contato com seus pais de pensamento l
Who was Jaap Penraat?
Jaap Penraat was a Dutchresistancefighterduring the SecondWorld War.
Penraat was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands. As a child, he helped Jewish neighbors by switching lights for them on Shabbat, which they were forbidden to do. When the Nazis occupied The Netherlands and began acting against the Jews, Penraat was an interior designer, architect and sculptor of tiles and statues. He started his resistance activities by forging identity papers for Jews, but was discovered and jailed for several months. Later he made over 20 trips smuggling a total of Jewish people to safety from The Netherlands to Spain via France by using his forgery skills to convince the Nazis they were slave laborers for the Atlantic Wall, on France's Atlantic coast. He lost only one man, who was hit by a train. Penraat was tortured by the Nazis but revealed nothing about his operations. After his release, he continued his activities until , when it became too risky to continue, and he spent the rest of the war hiding in a village, living on sugar beets.
After the war, Penraat became a noted designer in Amsterdam, until in he moved to the United States. In , he designed the Dutch mill ca
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