After the War: From Auschwitz to Ambleside (Conkers)

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Information for Grown-Ups: This book has a super-readable layout and typeface so that even more readers can enjoy it. It is aimed at children aged 9+ For instance, roughly two-thirds of military fatalities in the American Civil War were due to disease, according to Sartin, 1993. Infectious Diseases During the Civil War: The Triumph of the “Third Army”. Clinical Infectious Diseases Vol. 16, No. 4. Conflict took place in every year of the 20th Century; the world was free from the violence caused by war for only very short periods of time. It has been estimated that 187 million people died as a result of war from 1900 to the present. The actual number is likely far higher. I’m a big fan of history and read a lot of historical fiction. This book had an interesting and unusual focus because it is about what happened after the war, not during it. I learnt all about the work of the Red Cross, reuniting children from the concentration camps. But there are also large differences. Most noticeably, there is a large jump in 1994 – marking the Rwandan genocide – which is present in some series, but absent from others.

See for instance the definitions employed by the Global Terrorism Database, discussed here in our entry on Terrorism. In January 1945, Auschwitz was overrun by Russian soldiers. It was the largest extermination and concentration camp, to which over a million people had been deported from all over Europe. Upon liberation, only a few thousand prisoners remained. Most of the surviving prisoners had been taken away on death marches. On the 14 th August 1945, 300 Jewish child survivors of the Holocaust arrived at Crosby on Eden airfield to begin their long process of recovery from the deprivations and horrors that they had endured. They were part of a larger programme, funded by the Jewish organisation the Central British Fund. This made provision for 1000 child survivors of the Holocaust to travel to Britain, but only 732 could be found. This first group of 300 children would spend time near Lake Windermere in the Lake District as part of a programme of recovery and recuperation. Subsequent groups were sent to other parts of the UK. A moving and thought-provoking read which shares the experiences of the Windermere Children. Tom has worked carefully with survivors, including members of our much-loved survivor family, to create a book which captures many of their memories of arrival and first months in Britain. For students, ‘After the War’ will be a first glimpse into the importance of listening, and witnessing to, the testimonies of survivors of the Holocaust.” Louise Stafford, Director of Learning, The National Holocaust Centre and Museum

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We have created a series of lessons around the novel After the War. These lessons are aimed at students in Years 7 and 8, across a range of subjects: History, RS, SMSC and English.

Album – Gary Moore, After the War". Charts (in German). Media Control Charts . Retrieved 9 June 2018. It’s the story that’s researched and shared by the excellent @HolocaustLake and that was dramatised in a recent BBC drama. But @tompalmerauthor caps them all. The best children’s fiction book I’ve yet read about the Holocaust After The War manages to be vividly engaging both as history education and as a human story – eye-opening, exciting, hugely touching. Beautifully structured and written – ending on a marvellous image of take-off – it may be aimed at 9-14 year-olds, but no-one should miss it. The best children’s fiction book I’ve yet read about the Holocaust. After The War manages to be vividly engaging both as history education and as a human story – eye-opening, exciting, hugely touching. Beautifully structured and written it may be aimed at 9-14 year-olds, but no-one should miss it” CEO Anne Frank Trust UK

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What a brilliant way for many thousands of children to learn the truth about the Holocaust, as well as the value of friends and family.” MARION FOTHERGILL, former resident of the Calgarth Estate

World War I took the lives of more than 9 million soldiers; 21 million more were wounded. Civilian casualties numbered close to 10 million. The two nations most affected were Germany and France, each of which sent some 80 percent of their male populations between the ages of 15 and 49 into battle. The absolute number of war deaths has been declining since 1946. In some years in the early post-war era, around half a million people died through direct violence in wars. In recent years, the annual death toll tends to be less than 100,000. Booking is now open to visit the exhibition about the Windermere Children at Windermere Library here The ‘UCDP all’ series is an aggregation of the deaths recorded in each of the three categories of conflict used by Uppsala Conflict Data Program: state-based conflict, non-state conflict and one-sided violence. (We show the data for these categories separately here).I’ve just read your book and I loved it. I’m second generation and my father was one of the Boys who went to Windermere. I’m currently writing a presentation for ages 13 plus and will definitely recommend your book. I thought how you portrayed the children was spot on especially how they kept being reminded of what they had witnessed and lost. I found it very moving. I look forward to sharing it with my grandchildren when they are older. Congratulations” M Turgel World War I was the first major conflict to harness the power of planes. Though not as impactful as the British Royal Navy or Germany’s U-boats, the use of planes in World War I presaged their later, pivotal role in military conflicts around the globe. FULL Lesson plans and materials for KS3 History, RS, Cit and Eng produced by the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education here The First Battle of the Isonzo took place in the late spring of 1915, soon after Italy’s entrance into the war on the Allied side. In the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo, also known as the Battle of Caporetto (October 1917), German reinforcements helped Austria-Hungary win a decisive victory. I hereby sing from the felltops that @tompalmerauthor’s #AfterTheWar is absolutely wonderful. It tells the story of three of the #WindermereChildren – 300 Jewish child refugees rescued by @WJRelief after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps exactly 75 years ago in August 1945, who were then cared for in a camp in the #LakeDistrict before settling to new lives across Britain.

Very exciting news that the Duchess of Cambridge met with some of the meeting Windermere Children, their families and Trevor Avery.I really enjoyed this book. Mordecai was my favourite character because, although he was weird and quiet, he was also the most responsible and the smartest character. You can read more about how region is defined within the codebook that accompanies the UCDP Battle-related Deaths Dataset on which this chart draws.