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

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Simon and Schuster, Feb 4, 2014 - Biography & Autobiography - 432 pages
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.
 

Contents

Janine Phillips
1
Ephraim Shtenkler
21
Dirk Van der Heide
33
Werner Galnik
55
Janina Heshele
67
Helga WeissovaHoskova
73
Dawid Rubinowicz
79
Helga KinskyPollack
93
Charlotte Veresova
201
Sarah Fishkin
202
Mary Berg
209
Ina Konstantinova
249
Joan Wyndham
273
Hannah Senesh
311
YEARS OLD
335
Colin Perry
367

Tamarah Lazerson
127
Macha Rolnikas
185
The Unknown Brother and Sister of Lodz Ghetto
395
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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; Children of Israel, Children of Palestine: Our Own True Stories; and 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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