ABSTRACT
The teachers and students who studied Anne Frank's diary and other Holocaust expository and poetic texts, primary source documents, photographs, and visuals, drew connections between their own lives and the lives of adolescents who survived the Holocaust. In this chapter, the author shares texts and examples from his own research and work with Holocaust literature. Picturebooks about the Holocaust provide shorter synergistic expressions of print and image for making meaning. The author uses the spelling of picturebook as one word to honor that meaning making and the importance of synergy between print and image within picturebooks. Picturebooks may also help bring chronotopes to mind as one moves into Cordel/Icons activities in his/her study. Several picturebooks tell the story of a Polish doctor named Janusz Korczak who cared for Jewish children whose parents were incarcerated or killed during the Holocaust. Beginning with the plethora of stories on Anne Frank, hiding has become an almost romanticized way of teaching about the Holocaust.
