Enslow 2010 128p 31.93
True Stories of Teens in the Holocaust(Enslow)
978-0-7660-3268-2 ms/hs VG-BN
Examines the lives of children and teens living in Germany before and during the Holocaust, including the rise of Nazism, growing persecution of Jews, and the Hitler Youth. Using primary source recollections integrated with the narrative, readers learn of the horror, suffering and brutality experienced by teens in Germany and surrounding countries that were part of Hitler’s empire. The political origins of the events that put the “Final Solution” into operation are discussed in the opening chapters, thus setting the context for reign of terror that targeted Jews, non-Aryans and gentiles alike. Each recollection is set off from the text by a different font, which emphasizes and elaborates upon the narrative. The focus stays true to the title by examining how Hitler’s policies destroyed childhood innocence and ripped families apart. Fractured friendships, interrupted education and life and death choices were only a few of the effects of Hitler’s propaganda and the Nazification of German society. Even German Aryan youth were affected, as the chapter on the Hitler Youth shows both young teens who joined Nazi youth organizations and those who rebelled against it. The subject of this book, specifically teenagers who “saw horrors that no….boy should ever see” fills a void in the non-fiction, non-biographical titles of the Holocaust as seen and experienced by teens. For years Anne Frank’s diary has been the most compelling testimony of a young life destroyed. The recollections in this title are just as compelling. Zajko, Rosanne
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