Altman. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Altman, Linda Jacobs    The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising     

Enslow      2011  128p  31.93 978-0-7660-3320-7 

 ms/jr E-BN        

 Features the people who led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during the Holocaust. With photographs of events and artifacts along with diary entries and personal letters, students will learn about the heroes who resisted the Nazis. Grades 7-12.       

The Warsaw Ghetto was set up to contain Jewish people during the Holocaust. Yet the Jewish people found ways to smuggle supplies and weapons into their prison-like compound. When the Nazis came into the ghetto, the Jewish people fought a guerilla style warfare and managed to destroy many Nazi soldiers. Each chapter features either a male or female leader of the Jewish people who aided in the struggle. Even the lead Nazi,  General Jurgen Stroop is given a chapter explaining his background and his beliefs that led Nazis to treat Jewish people so inhumanely. Personal narratives are woven seamlessly into the text to give a first person viewpoint of their struggles. Chapter notes, glossary, further reading, index and timeline complete the book. A first resource to understand conditions in the ghetto and the valiant fight put up by the Jewish people during their captivity.     

     Holocaust Through Primary Sources contains four books that  focus on the people responsible for both the horror and liberation of many Jews during World War II. Well illustrated and written  with personal narratives seamlessly woven into the text.        Lois McNicol