Illustrations by Gillian NewlandTranslation by Muriel Sawyer and Geraldine McLeodContributions by Tory FisherDisclaimer: I received a digital version of this book via Netgalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. The book, however, had been on my tbr shelf as the English only edition has been ...
Disclaimer: ARC via Netgalley When the trial of Oskar Groening of aiding and abetting the killing of Jews in Auschwitz. started, I actually discussed it with a student. We had both seen the series on Auschwitz done by BBC and Lawrence Rees. In it, Groening is interviewed. My stu...
It is odd that in all my reading of stories relating to WWII and the Holocaust, I was somehow unaware of the many Jews who, when they sought refuge from the Nazis in the 1930s, moved to Shanghai . . . Read more here.
What I really enjoyed about this book was that it showed a cheerful aspect inside a miserable situation. Barred inside the wall of a concentration camp, the author shows us there were moments of happiness. I also enjoyed how the author revealed the identity of Nivelli, the famous magician, inside th...
I thought I knew my Holocaust history fairly well. I studied it, went to museums and lectures but never heard of the Jewish Immigrants that fled Nazi Europe to Shanghai. This amazing middle school book took me on a journey with a little girl of seven torn from her home in Vienna and taken to a far o...
This is technically fiction, though it is one of those fiction books that blends history and fiction. It is more true than historical fiction but less true than fact.I should point out that I usually don't like books like that, and if I had know that prior to reading this book, I most likely would ...
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