Cart (0 items)- Destined to Live : A True Story of a Child in the Holocaust
Author
Type
Ages
Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
Pages
156 p., [8] p. of plates
Keywords
Categories
JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / Holocaust, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Historical
Subjects
Jews, Poland, Biography, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Poland, Biography, Holocaust survivors, New York (State), New York, Biography
Publisher
mwfb
Slightly different from holocaust stories whose perspective focuses on prison camps, this true story highlights hiding techniques the Jews employed for survival. The risk shouldered by those who assisted was great, and this author expresses the guilt felt over it. [gw]
publisher summary(s)
The author describes how her happy childhood in 1930s Poland changed abruptly when she was forced into hiding with the Szczygiels, a family of gentiles, upon the arrival of the Nazis.
Having a normal and happy childhood in the 1930s in her community in Poland, a young girl explains how greatly things changed when acts of anti-Semitism began, families got deported, and her very life was put at risk after being forced into hiding with a family of brave gentiles upon the arrival of the Nazis. Original.
Pretty, carefree Aurelia Gamser (known today as Ruth Gruener) had an idyllic life in 1930s Poland -- until violent acts of anti-Semitism and the deportation of Jewish families to concentration camps changed everything in her world. Hiding out with a gentile family, her very life at risk every day, Ruth struggled to remain strong and sane. And though she was destined to live, her struggle continued after the war, when she began a new life in America, as a teenager who had been through horrors. This memoir will inspire countless readers and bestow important lessons about life, hope, and memory.