ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Who were the Edelweiss Pirates, and what did they do?
Dr. Luke Berryman is the founder of The Ninth Candle, a nonprofit organization that works with schools across the United States to improve Holocaust education in a very innovative way. We recently spoke with him about it and you can listen to that program here.
His new book is Resisting Nazism, True Stories of Resistance to the World’s Most Dangerous Ideology, from 1920 to the Present. It contains twelve chapters, each of which tells a different story of resistance, at a different period in history, from cartoonists who caricatured the Nazis in the 1920s, before they came to power, to the neo-Nazis of the present day. Sometimes these stories involve incredible daring and enormous risk – but they also show that resistance can begin with something as simple as writing your ideas down or showing solidarity with the oppressed. The book is built on original interviews with the people involved, their families, and their colleagues, as well as deep research, and includes copious notes, a bibliography and suggested further reading, including a list of nonfiction books for young people about Nazi Germany and its legacy. While the book is thoroughly researched and documented, the language used is not academic, so it is very accessible and can appeal to a young adult as well as adult readership.
