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LA GIORNATA DELLA MEMORIA: IL METODO ALI PER RICORDARE

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Scritto da la Redazione Giovedì 03 Febbraio 2011 08:48

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Il 27 gennaio si celebra la Giornata della Memoria. Presso il  Istruzione
Secondaria di Primo Grado "Vincenza Sofo", di Monopoli, i ragazzi della prof.ssa M. D. Talenti hanno partecipato all'attività ALI, per celebrare la giornata "Memorial Day 2011".

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La metodologia ALI (Apprendimento Linguistico Integrato) ha consentito l'uso della lingua straniera non come oggetto di studio, in quanto materia curricolare ma essa stessa veicolo per trasmettere contenuti storici e conoscenza di esperienze umane raccontate dai sopravvissuti ai campi di sterminio nazisti.

Gli studenti si sono attivati per divulgare a tutto l'istituto l'invito ad accendere la "candela virtuale" (http://www.hmd.org.uk/resources) ed a leggere la storia di Lily.
L'invito è rivolto qui ai lettori.

 


 

The golden pendant’s adventure; Lily’s story
• this gold pendant was given to a little girl in the 1930s
• the little girl grew up in Hungary
• the pendant was hidden in a shoe for a long time
• the pendant was never found by people who were looking for it
Here is a happy picture of Lily.  Can you see what Lily is wearing on the chain around
her neck?  It’s a tiny pendant, made of gold.  It looks quite ordinary, similar to any
locket, charm or keepsake anyone might wear but it has its own remarkable Untold
Story.
When Lily was a very young child of about 4 or 5 her mother gave her this small gold
pendant.  Even then it wasn’t very expensive or unique but young Lily was very
pleased with her present.  Lily had a happy childhood growing up with her sisters and
brothers in Hungary within a loving family. Life was good until the Nazis came. Lily
was a teenager when the Nazis arrived in Hungary and her life was to change
forever.  The Nazis hated Jewish people and would not allow them to lead normal
lives.  They confiscated property and valuables and made Jewish people live in
terrible conditions.  Lily and her family were Jewish.  One day they were ordered to
hand in all their gold and jewellery.  Lily’s brother knew how important the tiny gold
pendant was to his sister so he hid it in the heel of their mother’s shoe.
In July 1944, when Lily was 14 the Nazis deported her from her town of Bonyhad
with her mother, brother and three sisters.  They were taken by train, crammed into
dark and almost airless cattle trucks, to Auschwitz.  The small pendant went with
them.  It was still safe inside the heel of her mother’s shoe.  Lily and her mother
wore the same size of shoe and as they arrived at the camp her mother asked Lily to
swap shoes with her.  Lily put on her mother’s shoes.
Although this happened over 70 years ago Lily can still remember her arrival at the
camp.  After the long and terrible journey ‘everyone was half-dead’.  They were
ordered to climb out of the train and stand together five in a row.  There was a man
with a stick in his hand. It was Dr Mengele, the notorious Nazi doctor who became
known as the Angel of Death for his brutal experiments on inmates, though at the
time Lily didn't know who he was.  With one movement of his hand Dr Mengele
sealed the fate of the people before him.  He sent people right or left —to life or to
death.  The people who were sent to the left were taken immediately to the gas
chambers and crematorium.  Lily and her two sisters Renee and Piri went right.  Her
mother Nina, brother Bela and sister Berta went left.  She never saw them again.
Lily and her two sisters were ordered to take a shower then their hair was cut and
their remaining belongings stolen.  The Nazis left them with only their shoes and in
the heel of Lily’s shoe the tiny pendant lay hidden, Lily’s last link with her mother.2
www.hmd.org.uk
Lily and her sisters saw a fire in the chimneys, and a smelt a terrible smell.  They
thought it was a factory and asked people about it.  They were told it was not a
factory and that it was Lily’s family who were being burned there with all the others
who had been sent down the path to the left.
This knowledge made Lily even more determined to keep her pendant safe.  It was
her only remaining possession and a reminder of her happy childhood.  It was a link
to her murdered mother and a symbol of defiance.  The Nazis would not be allowed
to steal it! The guards ordered valuables to be handed over but her pendant stayed
in the heel of her shoe. When the shoes wore out she placed the pendant in her
daily ration of bread. After about four months in Auschwitz, the sisters were
transferred to an ammunition factory near Leipzig. The pendant went with them.
Allied forces liberated Leipzig in 1945 and the sisters sought refuge in Switzerland.
Lily tried to rebuild her life.  She wore the pendant every day in memory of her
murdered family.  Eventually she married and had children.  In 1953 she was
reunited with Imre, one of her brothers, who had been imprisoned in a Nazi labour
camp.  In 1967 she came to London with her husband and three children.
Over 70 years have passed since liberation and as we see in the picture, Lily is now a
proud grandmother.  She still wears the tiny gold pendant and shares its remarkable
story with all those who have time to listen.  Any gold arriving in Auschwitz was
stolen by the Nazis so Lily believes that her pendant is unique, the only gold to enter
and leave the camp with its rightful owner.  Like Lily herself, it survived against the
odds.  Lily asks that now we know the Untold Stories surrounding it we will share
them with other people. She hopes that everyone who listens will acknowledge just
how terrible human beings have been and still can be to each other.  She wants
young people especially, as the future of the world, to understand the importance of
tolerance and love and asks them to promise to be kinder to each other. The Nazis
ruled through policies of discrimination and hatred but Lily believes that on
Holocaust Memorial Day 2011 young people should remember the adventures of
one tiny pendant and use its Untold Stories of survival to challenge such hatred by
reminding everyone that no matter what different skin colours, religions or
nationalities exist, all human blood is red.
holocaust_2The golden pendant’s adventure; Lily’s story
• this gold pendant was given to a little girl in the 1930s
• the little girl grew up in Hungary
• the pendant was hidden in a shoe for a long time
• the pendant was never found by people who were looking for it
Here is a happy picture of Lily.  Can you see what Lily is wearing on the chain around
her neck?  It’s a tiny pendant, made of gold.  It looks quite ordinary, similar to any
locket, charm or keepsake anyone might wear but it has its own remarkable Untold
Story.
When Lily was a very young child of about 4 or 5 her mother gave her this small gold pendant.  Even then it wasn’t very expensive or unique but young Lily was very pleased with her present.  Lily had a happy childhood growing up with her sisters and brothers in Hungary within a loving family. Life was good until the Nazis came. Lily was a teenager when the Nazis arrived in Hungary and her life was to change forever. The Nazis hated Jewish people and would not allow them to lead normal lives. They confiscated property and valuables and made Jewish people live in terrible conditions. Lily and her family were Jewish.  One day they were ordered to hand in all their gold and jewellery. Lily’s brother knew how important the tiny gold pendant was to his sister so he hid it in the heel of their mother’s shoe.
In July 1944, when Lily was 14 the Nazis deported her from her town of Bonyhad with her mother, brother and three sisters.  They were taken by train, crammed into dark and almost airless cattle trucks, to Auschwitz.  The small pendant went with them. It was still safe inside the heel of her mother’s shoe.  Lily and her mother wore the same size of shoe and as they arrived at the camp her mother asked Lily to swap shoes with her.  Lily put on her mother’s shoes.
Although this happened over 70 years ago Lily can still remember her arrival at the camp.  After the long and terrible journey ‘everyone was half-dead’.  They were ordered to climb out of the train and stand together five in a row.  There was a man with a stick in his hand. It was Dr Mengele, the notorious Nazi doctor who became known as the Angel of Death for his brutal experiments on inmates, though at the time Lily didn't know who he was. With one movement of his hand Dr Mengele sealed the fate of the people before him. He sent people right or left —to life or to death. The people who were sent to the left were taken immediately to the gas chambers and crematorium. Lily and her two sisters Renee and Piri went right. Her mother Nina, brother Bela and sister Berta went left.  She never saw them again.
Lily and her two sisters were ordered to take a shower then their hair was cut and their remaining belongings stolen.  The Nazis left them with only their shoes and in the heel of Lily’s shoe the tiny pendant lay hidden, Lily’s last link with her mother.2
www.hmd.org.uk
Lily and her sisters saw a fire in the chimneys, and a smelt a terrible smell. They thought it was a factory and asked people about it.  They were told it was not a factory and that it was Lily’s family who were being burned there with all the others who had been sent down the path to the left.
This knowledge made Lily even more determined to keep her pendant safe.  It was her only remaining possession and a reminder of her happy childhood.  It was a link to her murdered mother and a symbol of defiance.  The Nazis would not be allowed to steal it! The guards ordered valuables to be handed over but her pendant stayedin the heel of her shoe. When the shoes wore out she placed the pendant in herdaily ration of bread. After about four months in Auschwitz, the sisters were transferred to an ammunition factory near Leipzig. The pendant went with them. Allied forces liberated Leipzig in 1945 and the sisters sought refuge in Switzerland.
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Lily tried to rebuild her life.  She wore the pendant every day in memory of her murdered family. Eventually she married and had children. In 1953 she was reunited with Imre, one of her brothers, who had been imprisoned in a Nazi labour camp. In 1967 she came to London with her husband and three children. Over 70 years have passed since liberation and as we see in the picture, Lily is now a proud grandmother. She still wears the tiny gold pendant and shares its remarkable story with all those who have time to listen.  Any gold arriving in Auschwitz was stolen by the Nazis so Lily believes that her pendant is unique, the only gold to enter and leave the camp with its rightful owner. Like Lily herself, it survived against the odds. Lily asks that now we know the Untold Stories surrounding it we will share them with other people. She hopes that everyone who listens will acknowledge just how terrible human beings have been and still can be to each other.  She wants young people especially, as the future of the world, to understand the importance of tolerance and love and asks them to promise to be kinder to each other. The Nazis ruled through policies of discrimination and hatred but Lily believes that on Holocaust Memorial Day 2011 young people should remember the adventures of one tiny pendant and use its Untold Stories of survival to challenge such hatred by reminding everyone that no matter what different skin colours, religions or nationalities exist, all human blood is red.

 

 

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#1 barba2 2011-02-19 19:29
Questa è un' iniziativa brillante. Tutti gli alunni hanno il diritto di capire l' errore e l' orrore che gli ebrei hanno subito.
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