True Stories of Children in the Holocaust

Required reading for those wanting to know the real experience of the holocaust from the pens of grown children.
Although I purchased Allan Zullo and Mara Bovsun's book to use as research on a book I was writing ,it not only served that purpose. I was swept up into the horror of genocide. An abomination! Each narrative expressed gratitude for surviving, but I couldn't help getting angry for each one all over again. Just to know that a selected group of individuals was being subdued by the maniacal and pitiful ruler responsible for minimizing the human being!
It extended the heart in me that just couldn't fathom someone doing something this big in the most dispicable way possible. I was swept up in Luncia Gamzer's story and others who gave their take on what it meant to hide from life itself. The stories are presented in a way that children now could understand, even the graphic details of their sacrifices-appropriately.

Inspiring, and desperately amazing in its approach!

Written in simple language that even a young child can understand, but the details are very vivid and takes one back in time....to relive what the survivors (young as they were) went through and a celebration of survival and determination to live!

This is a touching, beautiful and heart wrenching reality to read. This is a must read experience. I think every child or adult should read this, to obtained a knowledge of these children during the horrors and brutality of Nazi Germany. These kids, the voices calling out from history beckon to be heard. This is a wonderful, quick, touching read, that will linger with me forever. Highly recommended book. A great teaching tool for kids, schools or parents that want to teach their kids about history.

This is a great book for middle school students when they are studying about the Holocaust. It is not graphic yet it does allude to the atrocities of the Nazis. Chapter 3 is about my friend's grandfather who survived.

Reading Anne Frank as part of 6th grade curriculum. Was hoping for a text to be able to compare and contrast Anne's experiences. This book is broken into chapters of different survivors based on interviews. It is written in very simple language, maybe a possibility for elementary students. Way below the reading level expected for middle school.

Great for teaching kids about the Holocaust and what the Jewish people, kids included, went through. Told from the perspective of those that experienced the Nazi take over of Jewish homes, businesses, families and parents and some children, alone sent to concentration camps. How Hitler took over country after country. Stories are rather short but due include some slightly graphic incidents in the ghettos and camps. Check the age appropriateness of book vs your children. Can be a great teaching book.