Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust

Gr 3-6 - Elsa and her grandmother Dounia could not sleep all night, and the little girl asked the old lady to share the reasons for her sorrow. Dounia talks about her experience of being a Jewish child in Paris occupied by the Nazis in 1942. Telling a sorrowful event from a child's point of view such as being refused by a teacher or an original friend or having to turn on a yellow star is full of confusion and innocence. After all, when the police broke her house and arrested her parents, the little girl was hidden in her closet. When they were trying to find mothers and fathers being transferred to concentration camps, neighbor, Peliard rescued Dounia and adopted her. In the portrayal of the massacre, multidimensional rill was not shunned from a cruel fact. Dounia's flashback is the moment of the current conversation between the talker and Elsa, drawn in brown and sepia. Elsa gives questions and reads this story and provides questions that young readers may be trying to solve. Lizano's stylized illustration depicts the character of a super-large avatar reminiscent of "peanuts" cartoon, giving this difficult subject a feeling appropriate for age. Soft colors of blue and green are consistent with the tone of the story, too many images highlight people who help each other in this terrible time, accentuating meals, country scenery, family time. The ultimate image, family love and peace draws attention. Together with this beautiful painting novel and Lois Lorry's "Stars" (Houghton Mifflin, 1989) - School Library Magazine's Shelley Diaz

The idea of ​​"hidden massacre" conveys the constant killing worldwide killing, murder, whose size and rigor makes the term "Holocaust" truly applicable. Despite the fact that it is "hidden" and, in a sense, the history and the fact that millions of current people have experienced it in history, it is still invisible and officially recognized not. The media system has been out of order for a long time and has joined that point. "Hidden genocide" is not an unfortunate dysfunction of our civilization, but perhaps through some selection reform it still represents the peak of human development. Instead, the "hidden genocide" is part of the structure, values ​​and activities of our civilization. Unless we look at this and change it, we all will die of our own massacre.

"Lucky Children" is a memoir, first published in 2007, written by Thomas Birgenthal, the Czech Judge, writer, and survivor of the Holocaust. It focuses on the story of Birgental as a child of the ten year old Jewish who survived the Holocaust during the Nazi invasion. His motherland is thanks to his wisdom and some special fortune. Following his early life in Czechoslovakia and family history, and his subsequent escape from the concentration camp, the book explores the theme of human spiritual luck, faith and endurance. That name was taken from the author's mother, Mutti, she told her when she visited the fortune-teller that her son was born with very lucky. Positive comparison with Elie Wiesel's Night and Stephen Nasser's "My Brother's Voice" lucky child is considered an important addition to the Holocaust Memorial and is often used in college courses.