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I have read several Holocaust novels and each one never fails to give me new insight into that dark period of history. This book was no different. Having very recently read The Book Thief I was curious as to how much I'd like this book since I loved the other, and overall I enjoyed the read. Overall it took me maybe three hours to read the book. It is suggested for 5th-7th graders and I agree that is an appropriate age group despite the content. While it discusses World War 2 and the Holocaust it doesn't have any gory or too intense content that younger readers couldn't enjoy it. The story itself is a narrative of ones boys experience of his time in Poland when World War 2 began. He details him and his mother's journey across Poland and eventually into Hungary. It gives an innocents perspective on the events of war. It's a short read if you are just looking for something quick and entertaining. It would also be a good book to use to introduce your child or any young reader to dark topics such as the Holocaust.

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The Tailors of Tomaszow: A Memoir of Polish Jews

Rena Margulies Chernoff and Allan Chernoff

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Seven decades after the Nazis annihilated the Jewish community of Tomaszow-Mazowiecki, Poland, comes...

Miriam

Kerry Klineberg

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Miriam is a story that explores the impact of bequeathed memories and experiences on identity,...

Cassie Osbourne (6 KP) rated Selected to Live in Books

Nov 9, 2018

Interesting and heartfelt (as all Holocaust stories are) but towards the end it got very preachy. I commend this woman for being able to stay optimistic and keep hold of her faith after all that she went through, but when the words ÔGod is goodÕ are on every few pages I tend to lose interest.

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Awix (3310 KP) created a poll

Nov 4, 2019

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It seems topical to ask: what do you think The Shining is really about?

Alcoholism

8 votes

Annoyed Indian spirits

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Kubrick 'fessing up to faking the Apollo Moon landings

2 votes

Kubrick just wanting to tick off Stephen King

1 votes

The Holocaust

0 votes

The Minotaur

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None of the above, it's just a scary movie about a hotel with a weird floorplan

15 votes

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Bruce Wagner recommended A Lover's Discourse in Books (curated)

A Lover's Discourse

Roland Barthes | 2002 | Computing & IT, Romance

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"And speaking of which… (Jeffrey Eugenides nearly ruined him for me - cf. The Marriage Plot - but I’ll get over it.) What has become some sort of bullshit semiotic touchstone for asshole academics is in fact terrifying, pathetically human: he’s like a tender mathematician — perhaps more like Primo Levi — dissecting the holocaust that is Love."

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Maggie Nelson recommended Breathturn Into Timestead in Books (curated)

Breathturn Into Timestead

Paul Celan | 2014 | Fiction & Poetry

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"This book brought me to poetry; I could never read it enough. Celan’s poems are a radiant reminder of the most desolate events that can attend humankind (i.e. the Holocaust, suicidal despair) and its most resplendent features (the near mystical possibilities of poetic language, of intimacy). “Single counter- / swimmer, you / count them, touch them / all.’”"

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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated The Butterfly and the Violin (Hidden Masterpiece, #1) in Books

Oct 5, 2020

70 years after a painting of a woman prisoner of Auschwitz-Birkenau goes missing, a man who could lose everything by finding the original owner, joins an art gallery owner in the hunt. Read my review of this different kind of Holocaust story here https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2014/07/15/beauty-out-of-ugliness/