Children in the Holocaust and World War II Children in the Holocaust and World War II

by Holliday, Laurel

• ISBN13: 9780671520557
• ISBN10: 0671520555
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-06-01
• Publisher: Washington Square Press

Summary

Children in the Holocaust and World War II is an extraordinary, unprecedented anthology of diaries written by children all across Nazi-occupied Europe and in England.

Twenty-three young people, ages ten through eighteen, recount in vivid detail the horrors they lived through. As powerful as The Diary of Anne Frank and Zlata's Diary, children's experiences are written with an unguarded eloquence that belies their years.

Some of 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 twelve-year-old Dutch boy who lived through the Blitzkrieg in Rotterdam. And many others. These heartbreaking stories paint a harrowing picture of a genocide that will never be forgotten, and a war that shaped many generations to follow.

All of their voices and visions ennoble us all.

Author Biography

Laurel Holliday, formerly a college teacher, editor, and psychotherapist, now writes full time in Seattle. She is the award-winning author of the Children of Conflict series: Children in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret Diaries; Children of The Troubles: Our Lives in the Crossfire of Northern Ireland; Children of Israel, Children of Palestine: Our Own True Stories; and Children of the Dream: Our Own Stories of Growing Up Black in America. Laurel Holliday is also the author of Heartsongs, an international collection of young girls’ diaries, which won a Best Book for Young Adults Award from the American Library Association.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
Poland
Janine Phillips
10 Years Old	1	(20)
Poland
Ephraim Shtenkler
11 Years Old	21	(12)
Holland
Dirk Van der Heide
12 Years Old	33	(22)
Germany
Werner Galnik
12 Years Old	55	(12)
Poland
Janina Heshele
12 Years Old	67	(6)
Czechoslovakia
Helga Weissova-Hoskova
12 Years Old	73	(6)
Poland
Dawid Rubinowicz
12 Years Old	79	(14)
Austria
Helga Kinsky-Pollack
13 Years Old	93	(6)
Hungary
Eva Heyman
13 Years Old	99	(28)
Lithuania
Tamarah Lazerson
13 Years Old	127	(10)
Lithuania
Yitskhok Rudashevski
14 Years Old	137	(48)
Lithuania
Macha Rolnikas
14 Years Old	185	(16)
Czechoslovakia
Charlotte Veresova
14 Years Old	201	(8)
Poland
Mary Berg
15 Years Old	209	(40)
Russia
Ina Konstantinova
16 Years Old	249	(12)
Belgium
Moshe Flinker
16 Years Old	261	(12)
England
Joan Wyndham
16 Years Old	273	(38)
Hungary and Israel
Hannah Senesh
17 Years Old	311	(24)
Poland
Sarah Fishkin
17 Years Old	335	(8)
Denmark
Kim Malthe-Bruun
18 Years Old	343	(24)
England
Colin Perry
18 Years Old	367	(28)
Poland
Lodz Ghetto
Unknown Age and 12 Years Old	395	(8)
Bibliography	403	(2)
Credits and Sources	405