(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)

I've posed the following question before here at CCLaP, but it's worth posing again -- of whether a person can eventually reach the point where they really "get" the Holocaust, or at least to the extent that it would be a waste of their time to read any more books on the subject More...

An easy to read fiction book about how the gypsies in Poland were treated during the Holocaust. Some parts of the book were difficult to read because of man's inhumane treatment of man. Toward the end, I couldn't put it down.

About an American girl searching for her family's history as far back as WWII. Gypsies were sent to the concentration camps with the Jews, for the same purpose...extermination. A lot of little known history hERE.

Although the story was interesting and the plot drew me on to the (unlikely but predictable) ending, the writing was terribly amateurish....Oh, the cliches! Gazes are penetrating, eyes are flashing (if they weren't burning with passion), hearts pound, vows are solemn, dialog is....incredibly stilted and unlikely. I had trouble rising above it all, which is why I give it 2 stars. The subject (the Gypsy, or Romani, holocaust), however, is fascinating, and the author clearly did quite a bit of res More...