I'm in the middle of writing notes and a paper for a (maybe) video about Anne Frank and The Holocaust media. Not every form of media, just the ones that stand out to me. It's supposed to be part of a "Required Reading" series since it's Back to School time.
I'm crowdsourcing this answer because I want to hear your opinions. How do you feel about historical fiction when it comes to The Holocaust? Can it be affective when trying to teach it to children who are just starting to develop empathy and maybe some slight projection when reading? (Sort of a "Wow! X is so much like me, this incident could've happened to me", and so on, thing)
I personally feel like Historical Fiction can be a sort of gradient. Like, one end would be "Come and See", where the main characters depicted are fictional but the events and background are true (Khatyn Massacre and others), and the other end is The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas or The Day the Clown Cried. Which are just.
What.
by ColdStoneSteveAustyn
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The Diary of Anne Frank is already the thing you’re talking about. It’s historical fiction.
I’ve read dozens of Holocaust novels (it was my research area for a while) and hands down the best one I read was The Kind.y Ones by Jon Littel. It actually depicts the Holocaust as it was. It’s based on tons of historical sources and covers the whole war period, showing the eastern front and the einsatzgruppen and later the camps and the industrial slaughter. It’s a masterpiece. It’s incredibly confronting— to the point where it will be unreadable for many. But I dislike novels like the Tattooist of Auschwitz that want to avoid the actuality of the Holocaust. They hope to entertain as a priority, rather than pursue any kind of meaningful truth.