Monday, November 5, 2012

CANDLES Holocaust Museum visit 11-5-12




Candles Holocaust Museum visit: 11-5-12

The founder of the museum, and Mengele twin survivor,  Eva Kor, is scheduled to speak and take us on a personal tour of the museum beginning at 1:00.  Eva's tour lasts about 2 hours.  Please arrive by 12:45.   I have heard that it is emotional, and that Eva Kor is an amazing, fun, forgiving woman.
http://www.candlesholocaustmuseum.org/   Even though the website states the museum is closed on Mondays, it will be open for our tour and Mrs. Kor will be speaking to us.

CANDLES is a acronym for the words “Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors.”
The Museum was founded in 1995 by Eva Mozes Kor who, as a twin, survived the genetic experiments of Dr. Josef Mengele in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
Beginning the fall of 1943, twins were carefully culled from the arriving groups at Auschwitz and were used in experiments which were under the direction of Dr. Josef Mengele. Approximately 1500 sets of twins or 3000 children were used as human guinea pigs in the experiments.
On January 27, 1945, when Auschwitz was liberated by the advancing soviet army, only about 200 children were found alive. Most of these children were Mengele twins.

 
CANDLES Holocaust Museum
1532 South 3rd Street
Terre Haute, IN 47802 US





 




  











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What is "Core E", "LOW", "SL"?

What is "Core E", "LOW", "SL"?

Just a reminder; for people like my brother, who might be reading this blog-"Sonlight" is the main spine of our homeschooling curriculum-Sonlight is a company that sells books and instructions on how to teach your children at home.-"Core E" is the specific level we are in right now.  If we were in public school; Dd would be put in a grade 4th, 5th, or 6th grade.  With Sonlight (which is abbreviated "SL") you don't have 'grades' you have history steps, and each step is called a 'Core'.  We've finished Core A, B, C, D, and are working on Core E now.  Core E is the second part of a two-part series on American history.

What is a "LOW"? L-Left, O-Overs, W-Week--just like you have left-overs with your meals, I have left-overs with my lessons.  I'm just not quite so ready to move on yet; and want to slow down the pace.  Especially with big history points, I want to SLOW down and let this info sink in.