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A Voice from the Holocaust
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Eve Nussbaum Soumerai, Carol D. Schulz
Book Code: GR2358
ISBN: 0-313-32358-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32358-4
160 pages, photos
Greenwood Press
Publication: 10/30/2003
List Price: $41.95 (UK Sterling Price: £24.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Nussbaum and Schulz have managed to take what might have been "just another Holocaust story" and created a unique and rewarding experience for the young reader. Recommended.
    —Library Media Connection     April/May 2005
  • Readers will get to know Soumerai's family through photos and vivid personal anecdotes and understand her reaction to being considered an "enemy alien" in England when war broke out....Personal postcripts and extensive discussion questions and endnotes round out this memorable title.
    —School Library Journal     April 2004
Description: Eve Soumerai recounts her childhood as a Jewish girl growing up in Nazi Berlin, as a teenaged refugee in the United Kingdom, and later as a young adult searching for answers in postwar Germany. This first-person memoir helps students understand the Holocaust and its effects by chronicling the life of an individual who lived through it. Eve's story engages readers as she retells chapters of her life, including memories of a birthday party, Crystal Night, life in England, and losing family and friends. The historical context of the Holocaust and the author's life unifies and clarifies events. This is the first book in the new Voices of Twentieth Century Conflict series for middle and high school students. A series foreword, timeline, glossary, and questions for discussion and reflection pertaining to each chapter are included. Primary documents and original photographs help students to experience being in someone else's shoes, making this book the perfect teaching tool for helping students understand important aspects of the Holocaust.
Table of Contents:
  • To the Teacher
  • Foreword
  • Timeline
  • Preface
  • Departure
  • Back to the Beginning
  • My Name Is Evchen
  • Earliest Memory
  • My Father
  • My Fathers Parents
  • Where We Come from
  • My Mothers Parents
  • My Very Best Friend, Adelheid
  • Germany Between the Wars
  • Hitler's Election
  • Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany
  • Remembering the Great War
  • My First Big Lie
  • What Is a Communist?
  • A Sweet Birthday Party
  • The Last Happy Summer
  • The German Jews Lose Their Jobs, Their Property and Their Rights
  • Bad News
  • School Life
  • Concerning a Good Eraser and Heinrich Himmler's Underwear
  • My New Best Friend
  • Papa Disappears
  • Crystal Night
  • Kristallnacht (Crystal Night)
  • The Evian Conference
  • Adelheid Leaves My Life
  • Holding On
  • Kindertransport
  • Refugee
  • Reaching Out
  • Enemy Aliens
  • Nursery Helper
  • Recipe for Kindness
  • Deportations to the East
  • Paddington Green Children's Hospital
  • The War Comes to an End
  • Searching for Answers
  • Displaced Persons
  • Allied Civilian Employee
  • Return
  • Postscript
  • Glossary
  • Sources Used
  • For Further Study
LC Card Number: 2003045528
LCC Class: D804
Dewey Class: 940
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