Children in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret DiariesChildren 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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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 |
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