Auschwitz Explained to My Child - Softcover

Wieviorka, Annette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1569245525 ISBN 13: 9781569245521

Publisher: Da Capo Press, 2002

Synopsis

How does one broach with a child or young adult a subject like the Holocaust, the full magnitude and horror of which are difficult even for many adults to comprehend? This book, in conversational format, offers an ideal way to present this difficult subject to a young audience. At the book's opening, the author and her daughter Mathilde meet Berthe, a friend of the author's, on the beach, where they see the number that was tattooed on Berthe's arm at Auschwitz. The book, following Wieviorka's answers to her daughter's nearly eighty questions, provides a concise yet unsentimental and unsparing history lesson that explains Hitler's rise to power and the rise of anti-Semitism, the creation of ghettos and concentration camps (not only Auschwitz), the genocide of the Jews, the "Final Solution," Jewish and other resistance, and the guilt of the Germans.

About this title

About the Author

ANNETTE WIEVIORKA is research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and author of several books on the Holocaust. In 2000 she was awarded the Prix mémoire de la Shoah.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

Edition details

• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1569245525
• ISBN 13: 9781569245521
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 96