Foster, Harold M. “All but My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein.” The English Journal, vol. 68, no. 2, 1979, pp. 50–51. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/815485. Web. 23 May 2018
Harold Foster is an author of many novels including America’s Unseen Kids, a book with primary audience of young children and teens. Since Gerda Weissman Klein’s book, All but My Life, is also directed towards this same audience of teens and children, this shows that Foster would provide a fair evaluation of her book, as he is obviously familiar with this type of novel. Foster is a Distinguished Professor of English Education and Literacy at the University of Akron. He is also a part of the America’s Unseen Kids program and presents workshops all over the country as …show more content…
Frolick then became a Professor of Political Science at North Central College in 1971. He also became chair of the department of Political Science at North Central and teaches international relations and US foreign policy courses. In addition to this, Frolick wrote an article called An Experiment in Learning: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach in Teaching the Holocaust, which is an extension on the education of the Holocaust. This article was published in a journal called Shofar, which is an Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies that published scholarly work. Shofar was founded in 1981 and is a peer-reviewed journal that is published by Purdue University Press three times a …show more content…
After going through various hardships anywhere from being torn apart from her family members to marching for more than a thousand miles in a death march, Gerda decided to turn her experiences into something that could impact others in a more positive way and share her story through her novel, All but My Life. In this, Gerda turns the challenges she faced into something that others can learn from. It tells of the people she met that forever changed her life, including friends from the camps that kept her hopeful and the American soldier that liberated her from the death march, who eventually became her husband. Further, the main message that Gerda conveys throughout her novel is her “overpowering respect for life” and encouraging others to not take ordinary aspects of life for
Harold Foster is an author of many novels including America’s Unseen Kids, a book with primary audience of young children and teens. Since Gerda Weissman Klein’s book, All but My Life, is also directed towards this same audience of teens and children, this shows that Foster would provide a fair evaluation of her book, as he is obviously familiar with this type of novel. Foster is a Distinguished Professor of English Education and Literacy at the University of Akron. He is also a part of the America’s Unseen Kids program and presents workshops all over the country as …show more content…
Frolick then became a Professor of Political Science at North Central College in 1971. He also became chair of the department of Political Science at North Central and teaches international relations and US foreign policy courses. In addition to this, Frolick wrote an article called An Experiment in Learning: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach in Teaching the Holocaust, which is an extension on the education of the Holocaust. This article was published in a journal called Shofar, which is an Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies that published scholarly work. Shofar was founded in 1981 and is a peer-reviewed journal that is published by Purdue University Press three times a …show more content…
After going through various hardships anywhere from being torn apart from her family members to marching for more than a thousand miles in a death march, Gerda decided to turn her experiences into something that could impact others in a more positive way and share her story through her novel, All but My Life. In this, Gerda turns the challenges she faced into something that others can learn from. It tells of the people she met that forever changed her life, including friends from the camps that kept her hopeful and the American soldier that liberated her from the death march, who eventually became her husband. Further, the main message that Gerda conveys throughout her novel is her “overpowering respect for life” and encouraging others to not take ordinary aspects of life for