If students say that such events could not happen in their community, have them give reasons for their opinions. Like all of the survivors students will read about in this guide, they live in South Carolina. Trude lives in Greenville and Pincus in Charleston. The goal of this guide is to focus on the Holocaust experiences of South Carolinans to personalize the experience for students. As you use other lessons from this guide, consider locating and marking the cities in South Carolina where the survivors and liberators live.
Students can tag the cities with the names of the survivors and liberators.
Use string on a globe or a world map to connect the areas of Europe where these lessons take place and South Carolina. As students read the lessons about Trude, Pincus, and the other survivors, the class can create a lifeline for each person or place all the survivors on a single line using a different color for each. A lifeline is a string or rope stretched and tied between two points on which slips of paper representing the events in a person's life are hooked. Paperclips work well for this. Knots can be tied in the string or rope to represent the years involved.