Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe
by Deborah Dwork
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Author: Deborah DworkEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1993-09-10
ISBN: 0300054475
Number of pages: 380
Publisher: Yale University Press
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Book Review: human stories rescue horror from a sea of statistics
Summary: 5 Stars
In many years of reading about the Holocaust this book is the one which has most deeply affected me. It is all too easy, faced with the sheer scale of this disaster (this planned & engineered disaster) to see it all in terms of statistics - this many dead millions, that many survivors. Dwork uses the often heroic, always tragic stories of victims and survivors alike to bring alive the individual experience of the Holocaust for that most noticing of creatures, the human child. The sheer unpredictable madness of the whole Nazi scheme is brought home, as well as the unspeakable evil. Her stories of the young Dutch people who almost spontaneously formed rescue groups for Jewish children would be incredible but for the fact that they are documented, and raise painful questions about the millions who went along with the whole thing because they 'could do nothing'. But to me perhaps the most utterly sobering thing in the book is, in the end, one more statistic, one I hadn't seen before: that of all Jewish children alive in Europe in 1939, 89% were dead six years later. When I walk on the streets of my own city now, and see children coming out of a school, that fact runs through my mind every time that I look at them. This is a stunning book, well-written, well-researched, and (god help us!) a great read.
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