[PDF] Children In The Holocaust And World War Ii eBook

Author : Laurel Holliday
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 39,80 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1439121974

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Children in the Holocaust and World War II is an extraordinary, unprecedented anthology of diaries written by children all across Nazi-occupied Europe and in England. Twenty-three young people, ages ten through eighteen, recount in vivid detail the horrors they lived through, day after day. As powerful as The Diary of Anne Frank and Zlata's Diary, here are children's experiences—all written with an unguarded eloquence that belies their years. The diarists include a Hungarian girl, selected by Mengele to be put in a line of prisoners who were tortured and murdered; a Danish Christian boy executed by the Nazis for his partisan work; and a twelve-year-old Dutch boy who lived through the Blitzkrieg in Rotterdam. In the Janowska death camp, eleven-year-old Pole Janina Heshele so inspired her fellow prisoners with the power of her poetry that they found a way to save her from the Nazi ovens. Mary Berg was imprisoned at sixteen in the Warsaw ghetto even though her mother was American and Christian. She left an eyewitness record of ghetto atrocities, a diary she was able to smuggle out of captivity. Moshe Flinker, a sixteen-year-old Netherlander, was betrayed by an informer who led the Gestapo to his family's door; Moshe and his parents died in Auschwitz in 1944. They come from Czechoslovakia, Austria, Israel, Poland, Holland, Belgium, Hungary, Lithuania, Russia, England, and Denmark. They write in spare, searing prose of life in ghettos and concentration camps, of bombings and Blitzkriegs, of fear and courage, tragedy and transcendence. Their voices and their vision ennoble us all.

Author : Laurel Holliday
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,62 MB
Release : 1996-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0671520555

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An anthology of twenty-three diaries written during the Holocaust by children, some of whom were later murdered by the Nazis.

Author : Tara Zahra
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 22,23 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0674048245

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World War II tore apart an unprecedented number of families. This is the heartbreaking story of the humanitarian organizations, governments, and refugees that tried to rehabilitate Europe’s lost children from the trauma of war, and in the process shaped Cold War ideology, ideals of democracy and human rights, and modern visions of the family.

Author : Stephanie Fitzgerald
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 18,76 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0756544424

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Presents stories of children that through a combination of strength, cleverness, the help of others, and more often than not, simple good luck, survived Adolf Hitler's reign of terror, known as the Holocaust.

Author : Joseph Gosler
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 19,31 MB
Release : 2020-05-05
Category :
ISBN : 9789493056343

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"My name is Pietje Dijkstra not Josje Gosler!", he states tearfully when goaded by his cousin. The story of a child survivor, a Jewish boy who is hidden in the Netherlands during WWII. His porcelain psyche is damaged and his closest companion is fear. Ever wandering and struggling to find himself, we watch the young boy become a man.

Author : Candlewick Press
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0763697737

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In an intergenerational keepsake volume, witnesses to World War II share their memories with young interviewers so that their experiences will never be forgotten. The Second World War was the most devastating war in history. Up to eighty million people died, and the map of the world was redrawn. More than seventy years after peace was declared, children interviewed family and community members to learn about the war from people who were there, to record their memories before they were lost forever. Now, in a unique collection, RAF pilots, evacuees, resistance fighters, Land Girls, U.S. Navy sailors, and survivors of the Holocaust and the Hiroshima bombing all tell their stories, passing on the lessons learned to a new generation. Featuring many vintage photographs, this moving volume also offers an index of contributors and a glossary.

Author : Patricia Heberer
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 45,6 MB
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0759119864

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Children during the Holocaust, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, tells the story of the Holocaust through the eyes, and fates, of its youngest victims. The ten chapters follow the arc of the persecutory policies of the Nazis and their sympathizers and the impact these measures had on Jewish children and adolescents—from the years leading to the war, to the roundups, deportations, and emigrations, to hidden life and death in the ghettos and concentration camps, and to liberation and coping in the wake of war. This volume examines the reactions of children to discrimination, the loss of livelihood in Jewish homes, and the public humiliation at the hands of fellow citizens and explores the ways in which children's experiences paralleled and diverged from their adult counterparts. Additional chapters reflect upon the role of non-Jewish children as victims, perpetrators, and bystanders during World War II. Offering a collection of personal letters, diaries, court testimonies, government documents, military reports, speeches, newspapers, photographs, and artwork, Children during the Holocaust highlights the diversity of children's experiences during the nightmare years of the Holocaust.

Author : Danielle Bailly
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1438431988

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The history of France's "hidden children" and of the French citizens who saved six out of seven Jewish children and three-fourths of the Jewish adult population from deportation during the Nazi occupation is little known to American readers. In The Hidden Children of France, Danielle Bailly (a hidden child herself whose family travelled all over rural France before sending her to live with strangers who could protect her) reveals the stories behind the statistics of those who were saved by the extraordinary acts of ordinary people. Eighteen former "hidden children" describe their lives before, during, and after the war, recounting their incredible journeys and expressing their deepest gratitude to those who put themselves at risk to save others.