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Issue 41, 2016
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Wiesel’s message
Mini Page
Heroes:
In 1963, Wiesel became a U.S. citizen,
having moved to New York City to continue
his speaking and writing. Nearly 20 years
earlier, U.S. soldiers had set him free.
Wiesel worked hard to
promote world peace and
human rights. His more
than 50 books made
him a world-famous
author. In 1986, Wiesel
received the Nobel Peace
Prize in recognition of
his efforts to make our world a safer, more
loving place. He used his prize money
of $290,000 to establish the Elie Wiesel
Foundation for Humanity, an organization
that promotes the elimination of hate and
intolerance.
Elie Wiesel died earlier this year, but his
voice for human rights is stronger than ever.
Mini Fact:
Elie
Wiesel
photo courtesy World Economic Forum
Elie Wiesel
died on July
2 at age 87
in New York
City.
photo by Taylor Spaulding
photo courtesy The National Archives
been hungry, and he had been beaten when
camp guards were mad at him. He had worked
daily surrounded by fellow Jews who were sick
and dying.
So many of the people who had been part
of young Elie’s life were gone: his parents, his
neighbors and friends from his small village of
Sighet in Transylvania, Romania, his teachers
who had praised his schoolwork, his rabbi.
Elie Wiesel’s childhood had disappeared!
Remember
Starting over
Talk about the Holocaust with your
class or family. Can we afford to forget the
Holocaust? If we do, who will be the next
victims?
Life had to begin anew for him.
Miraculously, two of his sisters had also
survived the death camps, and in France he
was reunited with them. Strength came from
having family back in his life.
Elie Wiesel (circled) is pictured in
Buchenwald on the day U.S. soldiers
liberated the camp. He is on the far right,
on the second level of bunks.
Have you ever heard of Auschwitz (OWSHwitz)? It was a terrible place in Poland, one of
the death camps (also known as concentration
camps) where innocent people were killed by
the German Nazis during World War II.
Elie Wiesel (EH-lee vee-SEL) was only
15 years old when he saw Nazi soldiers lead
his mother and younger sister to their deaths
in Auschwitz. Later, at another death camp
called Buchenwald, he watched his father die
of hunger and disease.
A survivor’s story
After the Nazis surrendered in 1945, 16-yearold Elie was taken to France. Try to imagine how
he felt. He was an orphan. He had witnessed
brutality and torture on a daily basis. He had
Sharing his experience
Resources
More than 11 million blameless people,
most of them Jewish and more than 1.5 million
of them children, were murdered in the death
camps. Wiesel had lived through a horrible
nightmare that he called “hell on Earth.”
He knew that the world had to learn about
and remember what had taken place there.
And so he began to write and lecture about his
experience as a survivor.
Through his work, Elie Wiesel became
the voice for the Holocaust. In the Greek
language, the word holocaust means “a
sacrifice burned in its entirety.” Those 11
million men, women and children were all
sacrificed, and Elie Wiesel wanted to prevent it
from ever happening again.
This issue of Mini Page
Heroes is based on a
chapter from “50 American Heroes Every
Kid Should Meet” by Dennis Denenberg
and Lorraine Roscoe. To order the book,
go to heroes4us.com and click on “50
American Heroes Book” and “Order a
Book.”
On the web:
• bit.ly/2bpEOCm
At the library:
• “Elie Wiesel: Holocaust Survivor and
Messenger for Humanity” by Diane Dakers
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Try ’n’ Find
Mini Jokes
Words that remind us of Elie Wiesel are hidden in this
puzzle. Some words are hidden backward or diagonally,
and some letters are used twice. See if you can find:
AUSCHWITZ, AUTHOR,
BUCHENWALD, CAMP,
CITIZEN, ELIE, FRANCE,
HOLOCAUST, HUMAN,
NAZI, NOBEL, ORPHAN,
PEACE, POLAND, PRIZE,
REMEMBER, RIGHTS,
SISTERS, SPEAKER,
WAR, WIESEL.
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Eco Note
Some electronics use
energy anytime they’re
plugged in, even when they’re turned
off. Standby power is built into things
such as stereos, TVs, microwaves and
coffeemakers. Unplug these energy
vampires when you’re not using them.
adapted with permission from “The New 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth”
by The Earthworks Group, Andrews McMeel Publishing (andrewsmcmeel.com)
• 2 tablespoons grated
parmesan cheese
• salt and ground
black pepper
• 1 cup marinara sauce
What to do:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat a 6-cup muffin pan with cooking spray.
2. Cook macaroni according to directions. Drain and transfer to a large bowl.
3. Add sour cream and cheeses and mix well. Season with salt and pepper.
4. Spoon macaroni mixture into muffin cups. Spoon pasta sauce over the tops.
5. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes until cheese is melted. Serves 6.
Adapted from “The Robin Takes 5 Cookbook for Busy Families” with permission from Andrews McMeel Publishing (andrewsmcmeel.com).
7 Little Words for Kids
Use the letters in the boxes to make a word with the same meaning as
the clue. The numbers in parentheses represent the number of letters in
the solution. Each letter combination can be used only once, but all letter
combinations will be necessary to complete the puzzle.
1. bedtime clothes (7)
2. small glass ball (6)
3. hopping amphibian (4)
4. what a library is full of (5)
5. clock worn on the wrist (5)
6. what’s found in a wallet (5)
7. red vegetable (6)
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You’ll need:
• cooking spray
• 1 pound elbow macaroni
• 2 cups light sour cream
• 1 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella
cheese
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Red and White Pasta ‘Cupcakes’
* You’ll need an adult’s help with this recipe.
Cook’s Corner
The Mini Page thanks
Dennis Denenberg, former teacher,
principal and university professor, and
Lorraine Roscoe, a champion of heroes
of every kind, for help with this issue.
Teachers:
For standards-based activities to
accompany this feature, visit:
bbs.amuniversal.com/teaching_guides.html
Answers: pajamas, marble, frog, books, watch, money, tomato.