Child of the Holocaust

Author: Jack Kuper
Publisher: Robson Books
ISBN: 9781849543842
Category : Holocaust survivors
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
Jack Kuper was only nine years old when he came home to find everyone in his family gone. The night before, Germans had come to his village in rural Poland and taken away all the Jews. Now alone in the world, he has to change his name, forget his language and abandon his religion in order to survive.

Children of the Holocaust

Author: Helen Epstein
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140112847
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
"I set out to find a group of people who, like me, were possessed by a history they had never lived." The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Helen Epstein traveled from America to Europe to Israel, searching for one vital thin in common: their parent's persecution by the Nazis. She found: • Gabriela Korda, who was raised by her parents as a German Protestant in South America; • Albert Singerman, who fought in the jungles of Vietnam to prove that he, too, could survive a grueling ordeal; • Deborah Schwartz, a Southern beauty queen who—at the Miss America pageant, played the same Chopin piece that was played over Polish radio during Hitler's invasion. Epstein interviewed hundreds of men and women coping with an extraordinary legacy. In each, she found shades of herself.

Daniel's Story

Author: Carol Matas
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590465885
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.

Forever Alert

Author: Philipp Sonntag
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783936103755
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust

Author: Loic Dauvillier
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1596438738
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82

Book Description
A deeply moving story about a little girl hiding from the Nazis in World War II France.

Survivors of the Holocaust

Author: Kath Shackleton
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1492688940
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
"Perhaps there is no simple, easy way to educate children about the Holocaust. Yet [this] new extraordinary work in the form of a nonfiction graphic novel for children is a valiant attempt to do just that. These testimonials... serve as a reminder never to allow such a tragedy to happen again."—BookTrib Between 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party were responsible for the persecution of millions of Jews across Europe. This extraordinary graphic novel tells the true stories of six Jewish children who survived the Holocaust. From suffering the horrors of Auschwitz, to hiding from Nazi soldiers in war-torn Paris, to sheltering from the Blitz in England, each true story is a powerful testament to the survivors' courage. These remarkable testimonials serve as a reminder never to allow such a tragedy to happen again. Features a current photograph of each contributor and an update about their lives, along with a glossary and timeline to support reader understanding of this period in world history.

Your Name Is Renée

Author: Stacy Cretzmeyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190288639
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
In Nazi-occupied France in 1941, four-year-old Ruth Kapp learns that it is dangerous to use her own name. "Remember," her older cousin Jeannette warns her, "your name is Renee and you are French!" A deeply personal book, this true story recounts the chilling experiences of a young Jewish girl during the Holocaust. The Kapp family flees one home after another, helped by simple, ordinary people from the French countryside who risk their lives to protect them. Eventually the family is forced to separate, and young Ruth survives the war in an orphanage where she is not allowed to see or even mention her parents. Without the trappings of lofty language or the faceless perspective of history, this first-person account poignantly recreates the terror of war seen through the eyes of an innocent child. Your Name Is Renee is a tale of suffering and redemption, fear and hope, which is bound to stir even the most hardened heart.

The Last Selection

Author: Goldie Szachter Kalib
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 9781558490185
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
A Holocaust survivor recounts her time spent in labor camps and Auschwitz

Child Survivors of the Holocaust

Author: Paul Valent
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113533059X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
At the end of the Second World War approximately 1.5 million Jewish children had been killed by the Nazis. In this book, ten child survivors tell their stories. Paul Valent, himself a child survivor and psychiatrist, explores with profound analytical insight the deepest memories of those survivors he interviewed. Their experiences range from living in hiding to physical and sexual abuse. Child Survivors of the Holocaust preserves and integrates the personal narratives and the therapist's perspective in an amazing chronicle. The stories in this book contribute to questions concerning the roots of morality, memory, resilience, and specifc scientific queries of the origins of psychosomatic symptoms, psychiatric illness, and trans-generational transmission of trauma. Child Survivors of the Holocaust speaks to the trauma facing contemporary child victims of abuse worldwide through past narratives of the Holocaust.

Child Survivors of the Holocaust

Author: Beth B. Cohen
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813584981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323

Book Description
2017 Wiener Library Ernst Fraenkel Prize (WLEFP) Finalist The majority of European Jewish children alive in 1939 were murdered during the Holocaust. Of 1.5 million children, only an estimated 150,000 survived. In the aftermath of the Shoah, efforts by American Jews brought several thousand of these child survivors to the United States. In Child Survivors of the Holocaust, historian Beth B. Cohen weaves together survivor testimonies and archival documents to bring their story to light. She reveals that even as child survivors were resettled and “saved,” they struggled to adapt to new lives as members of adoptive families, previously unknown American Jewish kin networks, or their own survivor relatives. Nonetheless, the youngsters moved ahead. As Cohen demonstrates, the experiences both during and after the war shadowed their lives and relationships through adulthood, yet an identity as “survivors” eluded them for decades. Now, as the last living link to the Holocaust, the voices of Child Survivors are finally being heard.