Holocaust Remembrance Series for Young Readers
6 total works
Hiding Edith tells the true story of Edith Schwalb. The Schwalb family were amongst the many Jewish families who fled their homes as Nazi power increased in the lead-up to World War II. Edith was sent to Moissac, a small town in the south of France where the whole village kept the secret of a couple (Shatta and Bouli Simon) who ran a children's home in the area and protected the identity of the Jewish children who stayed there. Eventually the home is forced to close and Edith experiences many other dangers, surviving to tell her tale. Kathy Kacer captures the spirit of young Edith in this dramatic and moving account of Edith's personal experience during World War II.
A Holocaust survivor gives Laura Wyman the diary of a girl who lived in the Warsaw Ghetto, with whom Laura can "twin" as she prepares for her Bar Mitzvah, and Laura relates her thoughts and feelings about the young girl's writings and tragic life.
