Dear Student,
This set of instructions and the online journal have been designed to help you keep track of
your own Escape From The Holocaust
. It will be an emotionally challenging journey for all of us to
personally
experience a glimmer of what so many experienced and so few, in comparison, had experienced.
There might and probably will be moments on these journeys when our emotions may overwhelm anyone of us. Please
remember, that will be the time for you to reach out to your parents, teachers, and/or rabbis to help you with
these moments.
1. Look closely at the maps on the three (3) pages immediately following the Title
and Publishing
Information
pages.
These maps will be a very handy reference tool to keep track of the key locations of cities, towns, and country
borders; and Concentration, Interment, Extermination, and Displaced Persons Camps throughout Europe.
2. Carefully read Pages 1 through 5 and stop there and follow the next step in the directions
3. On your journey to escape, starting on page 5, you will have to make hard choices —— your
choices, once made,
are irrevocable. (Please, Do Not read ahead to try and second guess your choices — that
was not an available
option to those who wished to escape.)
4. Whenever you complete a page that requires you to make a choice, please re-read the page very carefully.
Think about whatever information or understanding of the information you have read or already know, and the
results (good or bad) of your prior decisions. Wait until the next day (sleep on it) to decide and then follow
the instruction on the bottom of the page. Use the same method in steps 2 and 3 to make your decisions when
required by the text.
5. It is essential that you keep a log of your choices, and the possible emotions, feelings, and concerns that
you as the person attempting to escape are feeling at each step of your journey of escape.