Children In The Holocaust And World War Ii: Children'S Diaries Of World War Ii,Used

Marking The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The End Of World War Ii, This Is An Extraordinary, Unprecedented Anthology Of Diaries Written By Children All Across Nazioccupied Europe And In England. Twentythree 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 Twelveyearold Dutch Boy Who Lived Through The Blitzkrieg In Rotterdam.In The Janowska Death Camp, Elevenyearold 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 Sixteenyearold 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.