El Education: Blanca Rosenberg

This memoir-style book was created by a 5th/6th grade student in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, and tells the life story of a Holocaust survivor. Blanca Rosenberg is the biography of Blanca written in first person narrative, as told to the student via an extensive interview. This narrative tells the life story of a Jewish woman from Poland who survived the holocaust though many around her did not. This deeply personalized account of World War II is a unique means for understanding the human impact of war.