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Torn Thread
by
Anne Isaacs
A searing Holocaust novel based on a true story.
Twelve-year-old Eva and her sister have been forced to leave their home in Poland and are imprisoned in a Nazi labor camp. There they must spin thread on treacherous machinery to make clothing and blankets for the German Army. As Eva struggles amid ever worsening dangers to save her life and that of her sick sister, readers w...more
Twelve-year-old Eva and her sister have been forced to leave their home in Poland and are imprisoned in a Nazi labor camp. There they must spin thread on treacherous machinery to make clothing and blankets for the German Army. As Eva struggles amid ever worsening dangers to save her life and that of her sick sister, readers w...more
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
October 1st 2002
by Blue Sky Press
(first published April 1st 2000)
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This book is so amazing and sad. I really liked it. It's horrible what hittler sent out to do :( I hope that this would nenver happen, ever!
People say that when your young life your life to the fullist,play have fun and enjoy your self because when your older you can't because you have to work and have many responsibilities to take on. But in this book it wasnt like that. 12 year old Eva and her sister Rachel had to work in a nazi labor camp. It's horrible what they had to do there. They weren'...more
People say that when your young life your life to the fullist,play have fun and enjoy your self because when your older you can't because you have to work and have many responsibilities to take on. But in this book it wasnt like that. 12 year old Eva and her sister Rachel had to work in a nazi labor camp. It's horrible what they had to do there. They weren'...more
“Torn Thread” By Anne Isaacs tells the story of Eva, a young Jewish girl from Bedzin, Poland. In the beginning, 12-year-old Eva is living in a Jewish ghetto with her father and her older sister Rachel. When Rachel is taken by Nazi soldiers, her father uses the connections from his job to find out that she has been sent to a labor camp in Parschnitz, Czechoslovakia. He asks for Eva to be sent there as well, because then he’ll know that she’s safe with her sister, and she’ll be less likely to be...more
The book was about a girl named Eva and her older sister named Rachel. At the begining of the book, Eva and her sister live with their father in a Jewish ghetto in Poland during World War II where they struggle to survive , living in a small attic with small rations. Rachel has weak lungs and a weak immune system which affects her for the worst through the entire book. One day, as Rachel is walking to their Aunt and Uncle's house, she is taken by the Nazi's in a raid and sent to a labor camp. A...more
I really liked this book. Its a fictional book about two sisters who lived with their dad during the Holocaust. They were from Bedzin, Poland and they were currently living in an attic in the Jewish ghetto. One day the Nazis came for a rade and took her sister, Rachel, to a camp called Parschnitz. Her father was forced to work in the Nazis offices so he was able to get Eva a pass to join Rachel at the work camp. Their father thought this was the best way to keep the girls alive. Eva and Rachel w...more
This book tells of two young Polish sisters who are sent to a Nazi work camp - the oldest is twelve years old - and are forced to make clothing for German soldiers. It is a true story that shows how the human spirit can overcome extraordinary odds and survive by sharing the goodness that is in all of us.
Torn Thread by Anna Isaacs, is a book that takes place in a work camp located in Czechoslovakia. The two main characters, Eva and her little sister Rachel, must find a way to stay alive for "one more hour" as her father told Eva to do. All the characters in the book are believable because they are based off of real people that really existed. The setting and plot may not be authentic, but the author makes the reader believe that it is. This first person narration has a wonderful design and style...more
Thorn Thread by Anne Isaacs is a fiction book about the Holocaust. It is about a twelve year old girl, Eva, and her father and sister had been forced to leave their home in the Polish town of Bedzin to a tiny attic room in the Jewish ghetto. Eva’s life takes a terrifying turn when she and her sister are torn from their father and imprisoned in a Nazi work camp in Czechoslovakia. In the camp, Eva was forced to spin thread on treacherous machinery to make blankets and uniforms for the German army....more
This is a slightly different look at the holocaust. These girls were sent to a work camp by their mother to keep them 'safe' from the concentration camps. They had a slightly better experience in terms of having shelter, blankets, hot water (sometimes) and a bit more food (at least in the beginning) than people in the death camps. But they had to work and work was in a textile mill several km. from the camp and they had to walk, even in the bitter cold of winter.
This is a true story and at the...more
This is a true story and at the...more
This book is based on what happened to two Polish sisters during the Holocaust. Eva, 12, is the youngest of the sisters and joins her sickly sister Rachel at a camp after her father's request to. Rachel was captured during a raid by the Nazis while in a Jewish ghetto and taken to the Nazi labor camp. Eva's father has some influence with the Nazis and finds out Rachel is safe and decides Eva will be safer there than in the ghetto. The sisters work in a textile mill with dangerous machines, mostly...more
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This biographical account of Eva and her sister's survival experience during the Nazi occupation of Poland, and their eventual immigration to the United States is written in a way that will appeal to young adult readers. Eva and her sister are deported to a Nazi work camp in Poland (Bergen-Belsen) where they work in a textile factory. Facing starvation and terrible work experiences, they survive to see themselves liberated at the end of the war and share the experience. Those...more
This biographical account of Eva and her sister's survival experience during the Nazi occupation of Poland, and their eventual immigration to the United States is written in a way that will appeal to young adult readers. Eva and her sister are deported to a Nazi work camp in Poland (Bergen-Belsen) where they work in a textile factory. Facing starvation and terrible work experiences, they survive to see themselves liberated at the end of the war and share the experience. Those...more
I read this book when I was in either 6th or 7th grade. It was the first time I had read a Holocaust-related novel and, as I was young, it has definitely stuck with me throughout the years. I'm someone who has an invested interest in history and, for me, Torn Thread expressed to me the emotions which allowed me, as a child, to understand the depth of the Holocaust and the destruction and suffering it caused. I remember that it was one of my favourite books at the time, and I would love to read i...more
Feb 01, 2012
Josh
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
teens
Shelves:
teens
This is the true story of two Jewish sisters who were taken from their home in Poland and put into a German slave labor camp from June 1943 to May 1945. It was written by one of the sisters' daughters-in-law. It is not a happy story, but it is a worthwhile read. It only took about 3 hours to read it. I find the history of Nazi Germany to be endlessly fascinating. It seems impossible to me that people can be so cruel to fellow human beings. I cannot fathom it.
This is a young readers book but is a well written story for readers of all ages to enjoy. This is a true story describe the life that two jewish girls had to leave while surviving life in a prison camp under Hilter's rule. This is just another story that tells us we must never forget the holucust and the horrific ordeals that the Jewish and others had to leave through while that crazy Hitler was in control. As long as these stories are being told and people rememember there will never be anothe...more
Although this book is considered fiction, it is based on the experiences of the author's mother-in-law and other prisoners of the camp at Parschnitz. The story is well told and echos the words of Victor Frankl and his experience that there are only two races of people - those who are good and those who are bad. I recommend this book to anyone who feels that the events of WWII should never be repeated.
I read this book when I was 11, but it is something I still hold with me to this day. This is the book that truly got me started with reading for fun and interested in history. I checked it out from the library almost every month to re-read it and see if there was something I missed in the story of the sisters.
This book is based on the life of Eva who is 12 when she goes to a Nazi work camp after staying in an attic in the Jewish ghetto. She and her sister Rachel do whatever they need to do to make it through 'one more hour' as their father instructed them.
Heartbreaking and inspiring, this is a great book!
Heartbreaking and inspiring, this is a great book!
This book, I found, was very easy to get into, but that wasn't until later in the book. It included lots of not necessarily needed, but they were still good in the sense that you needed to get a good visual. I could really feel what was happening during it, and I really enjoyed reading it.
While the book is classified as fiction, I became engrossed and had to keep reminding myself that some of the story was embelished to tell the true story of two sisters and the horrors they endured during the Holocaust. It is written by the daughter-in-law of one of the sisters.
Wonderful yet very touching story of 2 sisters forced endure the Holocaust in Germany. Relying on their father's advise "Try to live one more hour" held them together and allowed them to survive. I've been wanting to read this book for a long time - a unit on Tolerance at school gave me the excuse to grab it and read it.
This book was kind of scary, and sad. It's about 2 little, Jewish girls being sent off to a labor camp in the Holocaust. People are dying everywhere, or if you take one wrong step, you get sent to Auchwist Concentration Camp, or get starved, etc. It was very heartfelt and a cliff hanger on the end of some chapters, but I would only give this book 4 stars.
It's an emotional topic, but this book is really well-written. It's not too heavy considering the subject and a very good book for younger audiences to read if they're interested in the subject, or for any audience. Very good book.
in english class i chose this book out of the five choices. I truly fell in love with the book, and so did the others in my grade (even if they usually didnt like to read). A great book for not just for school, but also for fun
i liked this book alot. i've never read a book about the holocaust from a girl's point of view. i've only read about men in concentration camps, not girls in a factory, so it was different and good. it was also a true story.
i just found a list of "my favorite books" from when i was like 12... and this was on there! i'd forgotten i'd read it but i remember that it was really really good and made an impact on me.
Mar 09, 2009
Kim
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
historical-fiction,
teens
A book that demonstrates the depths of human courage and the will to survive, teens would enjoy this story of two sisters struggling to survive in a work camp during the final few years of World War II. The descriptions of the terrible conditons that the sisters (Eva and Rachel) endure along with the other women of hte camp adds to the authenticity of the story.
I'd promote this book to teens as part of a display theme based on World War II and the horrors it engendered. Really, I'd recommend thi...more
I'd promote this book to teens as part of a display theme based on World War II and the horrors it engendered. Really, I'd recommend thi...more
I loved this book. What the Nazi's did to people (wheither Jews or Jehovah's Witnesses or anyone who wasn't PURE.)was beyond cruel. I really got attached to the girls and their additudes.
This is one of my favorite books on this time period. It's well put together and very moving. It is a must read in my book and is very eye-opening.
Another recommendation from my daughter, Elizabeth. A great WWII story based on a true events. Reminded me of Number the Stars by Lois Lowry.
Oh my goodness. This book was so touching. It made me cry and think about how lucky I am. I'm so thankful, bless those who went through this.
A fresh and interesting look into the Holocaust from two young girls' perspectives. Written by the daughter-in-law of one of the survivor's, Rachel and Eva must band together to overcome the hardships at camp Parschnitz. The girls must travel miles to work and back to camp, but survive against the threading machines, food shortages, and sickness.
"Even now, there is sometimes a choice, a chance to act. Each choice may not mean much. It may only grant you another hour. But that is one hour closer...more
"Even now, there is sometimes a choice, a chance to act. Each choice may not mean much. It may only grant you another hour. But that is one hour closer...more
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