Children in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret Diaries

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Simon and Schuster, Feb 4, 2014 - Literary Criticism - 432 pages
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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. As powerful as The Diary of Anne Frank and Zlata's Diary, children's experiences are written with an unguarded eloquence that belies their years.

Some of 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. And many others. These heartbreaking stories paint a harrowing picture of a genocide that will never be forgotten, and a war that shaped many generations to follow.

All of their voices and visions ennoble us all.
 

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Contents

Ephraim Shtenkler
21
Werner Galnik
55
Helga WeissovaHoskova
73
Helga KinskyPollack
93
Tamarah Lazerson
127
Macha Rolnikas
185
Charlotte Veresova
201
Ina Konstantinova
249
Joan Wyndham
273
Hannah Senesh
311
Sarah Fishkin
335
Colin Perry
367
The Unknown Brother and Sister of Lodz Ghetto
395
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Children in the Holocaust and World War II
Laurel Holliday
Limited preview - 1996
Children in the Holocaust and World War II: their secret diaries
Laurel Holliday
Snippet view - 1996
Children in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret Diaries
Laurel Holliday
No preview available - 1996

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About the author (2014)

Laurel Holliday, formerly a college teacher, editor, and psychotherapist, now writes full time in Seattle. She is the award-winning author of the Children of Conflict series: Children in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret Diaries; Children of The Troubles: Our Lives in the Crossfire of Northern Ireland; and Children of Israel, Children of Palestine: Our Own True Stories. Those three volumes were collected and abridged in the Archway Paperback edition titled Why Do They Hate Me?: Young Lives Caught in War and Conflict. Dreaming in Color, Living in Black and White is an abridged edition of Holliday?s fourth title in the Children of Conflict series, Children of the Dream: Our Own Stories of Growing Up Black in America. Laurel Holliday is also the author of Heartsongs, an international collection of young girls' diaries, which won a Best Book for Young Adults Award from the American Library Association.

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TitleChildren in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret Diaries
AuthorLaurel Holliday
PublisherSimon and Schuster, 2014
ISBN1439121974, 9781439121979
Length432 pages
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