We've read Number The Stars–but that's from AnneMarie's perspective, not Ellen's. I have the picture book Jars of Hope, about a woman who hides Jewish children in other families but is able to reunite them because she hides details about each family in jars she buries in her yard.
While I do definitely need discrete accounts of Jewish children during WWII, I'm hoping to go broader–other lesser-known regimes, other marginalized groups and experiences. Transgender and disabled in particular, if it exists.
A collection of many accounts would be ideal. I don't have the bandwidth to read a stack of full-length survivor accounts–it's more that I'm trying to assimilate salient details.
I'm disabled and autistic and struggling with both my physical and mental health, and have a pre-teen autistic trans child; I am looking for ways to give her factual information on these experiences without scaring her with direct discussion of what could happen in the present. I'm trying to give her a framework but keep it feeling theoretical.
Hopefully it always stays theoretical.
I never read Life of Pi, but we saw the stage play recently (incredible puppetry). And I keep thinking about how different people from Pi's life appear in his mind and remind him of what they've taught him that he can apply to his survival situation. At the time, it never felt like it would apply to being in a lifeboat, but when he needs it he calls it up.
That's what I'm trying to do.
If you have suggestions for other subreddits or websites to check, I'm open to that. I posted in r/AskHistorians and r/AskHistory .
Thank you for your help.
by TangerineDystopia