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Hellen Keller
website for kids (it looks young and childish but has excellent info and pictures)
http://www.afb.org/braillebug/hkmuseum.asp
birthplace
http://www.helenkellerbirthplace.org
The Story of My Life, by Helen Keller (the play Miracle Worker is taken from her book written in 1903)
http://www.archive.org/stream/storymylife03kellgoog#page/n6/mode/2up
Perkins School for the Blind
Tewksbury Almhouse
Annie Sullivan's time there- this page and next several after, good quotes from Sullivan
http://www.afb.org/annesullivan/asmgallery.asp?FrameID=72
Overview of Sullivan's time at Tewksbury
http://perkins.pvt.k12.ma.us/museum/section.php?id=214
Book written about Sullivan that can be read online (written in 1933 by someone who knew both Keller and Sullivan) http://www.archive.org/stream/annesullivanmacy000333mbp#page/n39/mode/2up
A history of the Almshouse in general- primary source documents and pictures at bottom of page
http://www.tewksburyhistoricalsociety.org/Archives/StateHospital/
Deaf
What is wrong with the use of the terms: 'deaf-mute', 'deaf and dumb', or 'hearing impaired'?
http://www.eamo.org/SNA/deaf%20PC%20terminology.pdf
Deaf culture- even has a fingerspelling player (and the documentary is available to play instantly from Netflix) http://www.pbs.org/wnet/soundandfury/culture/deafhistory.html
1880s
History- 1880s
http://www.1930census.com/1880_the_year_in_history.php
Alabama- history of state
http://www.city-data.com/states/Alabama-History.html
Miracle Worker- the play
The best information is from a subscription site- but some basics can be found for free at
http://www.enotes.com/miracle-worker
1959 Playbill
http://www.playbill.com/features/article/137442-PLAYBILL-ARCHIVES-The-Miracle-Worker-1959
Brief article on Auschwitz Museum artifacts
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2668464,00.html
Two personal stories of how some artifacts survived - these change periodically so the website may not work next time:
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/bearing_witness/featured_artifacts_hack.asp
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/bearing_witness/featured_artifacts_schwimmer.asp
Click on a picture from the following section to read stories of other artifacts:
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/bearing_witness/life_camps.asp
Archaeological excavations at the site of the Nazi Chelmno Extermination Camp in Poland during World War II
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=khh&AN=8932301&site=src-live
Cookbooks
http://chgs.umn.edu/museum/exhibitions/ravensbruck/aboutCookbooks.html
Children's Poetry
http://www.nonduality.com/terezin1.htm
Forbidden art from Auschwitz-Birkenau
http://en.auschwitz.org/m/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=931&Itemid=7
http://lastexpression.northwestern.edu/exhibition_fr_e_milart.html (slide 12 has a list of items used to create art)
Video:
"Forbidden Art"- created at Auschwitz (2:54)
http://en.auschwitz.org/m/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=704&Itemid=77
Holocaust Children's Lit Bibliography
http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/history/holocaust.html
Books:
Green, Gerald, The Artists of Terezín. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1969.
Volavkova, Hana, ed., I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezín Concentration Camp, 1942-1944. New York: Schocken Books, 1993.