About this title: These are the true-life accounts of nine Jewish boys and girls whose lives spiraled into danger and fear as the Holocaust overtook Europe.
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780439669962ISBN:0439669960
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780439669962ISBN:0439669960
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: SCHOLASTIC BK SERVICES
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780439669962ISBN:0439669960
Description: New. These are the true-life accounts of nine Jewish boys and girls whose lives spiraled into danger and fear as the Holocaust overtook Europe. read more
"Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust, by Allan Zullo and Mara Brown, is a compilation of the gut wrenching, yet inspiring stories of eight different children who survived the terrors of the Holocaust. The book begins with an introduction from the authors; explaining the reason for the book, and then goes into a review of what the Holocaust was. After a brief education on the Holocaust, eight very heartbreaking stories follow. Students will learn about how children were separated from their families, about the fact that some people hid in attics for a very long time, and about the atrocities that went on inside the fences of the concentration camps. They will also learn about how difficult life was once the camps were freed.
Students will gain an understanding of the horrific events through the eyes of children. This is a book that is definitely meant for upper middle to high school age children, as it can be graphic at times. There were several times that I, as an adult, needed to put the book down for a break. However, I will say that out of all of the true stories that I have heard about the Holocaust, none touched me as much as these because they were from the perspective of children. I think that authors did a wonderful job of getting across each of the stories in a way that made readers understand just how devastating the Holocaust was. I also thought that it was very helpful and interesting that the authors included the story of what happened to each of the children once they we freed from this nightmare. It was nice to hear that they went on to live very happy lives with spouses, children and grandchildren."
""Survivors" is about children that went through the holocaust. The book was told in short stories. My favorite one was "I am a Partisan now". It was about Mathei Jakel. He was just ten years old when he joined the partisans. As a test to see if he could be considered and trusted as a "man" he was told to shoot a young woman who had assisted the Nazis. The question is whether Mathei would be able to say goodbye to his childhood forever by committing the unspeakable crime of murder, or would he risk his security within the partisans and keep what little innocence he had left.
I can make a text to text connection from this book to the book "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins. Like Mathei, the main character in "The Hunger Games" Katniss Everdeen must chose to take a life or risk their security and possibly their own life within the twisted game that life has thrown at the. However both in the end chose to kill in order to win at the twisted game they are playing. In order to win they had to live.
I give "Survivors" four stars because the stories were really touching. The way that the authors were able to craft the short stories was phenomenal. The authors took the painful story and made it into something that made the reader really care about. By crafting these stories so beautifully the authors really make the reader remember the horror that was the holocaust. The only thing that I had a problem with in the whole book was that because the people telling the stories were from Germany there were some foreign words in the book and I had to keep flipping back and forth to the dictionary in the back of the book."
"I decided to read this book because I'm really fascinated in the time period during the Holocaust. I like this topic because i have deep sympathy for the jews who were tortured and brutally killed. In Survivor, I felt vigilance for the main characters who had to hide from the Nazis. For example, Luncia and Sarah had to be agile in order for their own survival."
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