The Doll:
A Child's Survival of the Holocaust
Written by Melissa Mikel
Illustration by Elena Kingsbury
The Doll: A Child’s Survival of the Holocaust tells the true story of Holocaust survivor Faigie Libman. For her 5th birthday Faigie received the gift of a lifetime: her very own Shirley Temple doll! Faigie and her doll went everywhere together. They visited
the hospital where her mother worked as a surgical nurse and the international book shop that her father owned. They went for picnics and buggy rides and played with Faigie’s friends. Faigie and her doll were inseparable. They even stayed together when Faigie and her family were arrested – just because they were Jewish – and sent to the Kaunas ghetto. One tragic day, Faigie and her Shirley doll are separated. Faigie, however, learns that fate has a way of reconnecting old friends.
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Surviving the Holocaust, By Chance Alone
Asynchronous Student Program
Photos, testimony, and artefacts make this curriculum-compatible digital program centred on Max Eisen’s survival of the Holocaust a powerful program for your classroom. Developed for educational settings, the program includes primary-source materials, guided workbooks, and structured discussion. Liberation75's comprehensive three modules support rigorous, meaningful engagement with Holocaust history and its lasting lessons.