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Book

What was the Holocaust?

Call Number

  • J 940.5318 HERM (CEN, EAS, OSH, POW, WSQ)

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Publication Information

New York, NY : Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2018]

Physical Description

106 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Summary

"A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event--the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps--six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, whose rabid anti-Semitism led first to humiliating anti-Jewish laws, then to ghettos all over Eastern Europe, and ultimately to the Final Solution. She presents just enough information for an elementary-school audience in a readable, well-researched book that covers one of the most horrible events in history. Includes a letter from the editor and series creator, Jane O'Connor"--

Notes

Ages 8-12.

Contents

  • What was the Holocaust?
  • Anti-Semitism
  • Adolf Hitler
  • The Nazis
  • Hitler in power
  • War!
  • In the Ghetto
  • Life in the Concentration Camps
  • The Final Solution
  • Fighting back
  • Freedom! After
  • Timelines.

Subjects

Added Authors

Jerry Hoare