The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz : a true story retold for young readers

Author

Jeremy Dronfield

Call Number

• J 940.5318 DRON (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]

Physical Description

373 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm

Audience

Grades: 3-7. Harper.

Summary

In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved, and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in. When Gustav was set to be transferred to Auschwitz--a certain death sentence--Fritz refused to leave his side. Throughout the horrors they witnessed and the suffering they endured, there was one constant that kept them alive: the love between father and son.

Notes

Young adult version of author's The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz : a true story of family and survival. New York: Harper, 2020.

Adult version originally published, in slightly different form, as The stone crusher. Chicago Review Press, 2018.

Includes "What happened after" section with family photographs, timeline of events, author's note to parents and teachers, and glossary.

Contents

• Introduction
• Say yes!
• Shabbos
• The monster
• The connection and the exclusion
• Night of broken glass
• The journey
• The little camp
• The stone crusher
• A feeling of hope
• The road to life
• The new world
• Child of fortune
• The final solution
• Let's all fight!
• A town called Auschwitz
• The day will come when we're free
• A man far from home
• The resistance
• A trusted friend
• Fighting back
• A desperate plan
• The death march
• The end of the world
• They all fought
• The journey back
• What happened after
• Timeline of events
• Author's note to parents and teachers.