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A Voice from the Holocaust
Eve Soumerai recounts her childhood as a Jewish girl growing up in Nazi Berlin, as a teenaged refugee in the United Kingdom, and later as a young adult searching for answers in postwar Germany. This first-person memoir helps students understand the Holocaust and its effects by chronicling the life of an individual who lived through it. Eve's story engages readers as she retells chapters of her life, including memories of a birthday party, Crystal Night, life in England, and losing family and friends. The historical context of the Holocaust and the author's life unifies and clarifies events.
This is the first book in the new Voices of Twentieth Century Conflict series for middle and high school students. A series foreword, timeline, glossary, and questions for discussion and reflection pertaining to each chapter are included. Primary documents and original photographs help students to experience being in someone else's shoes, making this book the perfect teaching tool for helping students understand important aspects of the Holocaust.
This is the first book in the new Voices of Twentieth Century Conflict series for middle and high school students. A series foreword, timeline, glossary, and questions for discussion and reflection pertaining to each chapter are included. Primary documents and original photographs help students to experience being in someone else's shoes, making this book the perfect teaching tool for helping students understand important aspects of the Holocaust.
160 pages, Hardcover
First published September 5, 2000
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April 23, 2015
A voice from the holocaust is a book about the holocaust..... obviously. This book is about a girl named Eva Nussbaum Soumerai who is a Jewish girl from Berlin, Germany. Her family consist of Her father, mom, her brother named Norbert and Eva. Their story beings with them in Germany in the early 1930's right before Hitler comes to power. Everything in the life is normal and they are happy. Her father is a manager at a comforter factory, and her mother is a stay home mom and her and her brother both go to school and live a average German life.
Well all of this changed once Hitler became chancellor of Germany. He stripped the Jewish citizens rights and made the Jewish workers get fired from their jobs and any Jewish person who owned their own business were shunned and everyone was told not to buy from them. Eva's father got fired and was forced to try and find a job in another place and her mother was forced to get a job to provide for their family. It still was not enough they had to sell all of their furniture and belongings just to keep their water running. Eva and her brother were kicked out of school and made to attend a Jewish school.
Eva's parents knew that this was only the beginning. So they gathered enough money to send Eva to America, where she would be safe from the Nazi's. Once Eva got to America she was introduced to her foster family and they had very strict rules and were very poor. She hated it their. So once she turned 16 she decided to join the military and got sent to Britain and was used as a children's nurse, she did this till the end of the war. That's all I'm going to say because the end of the book is close.
I recommend this book to anybody who is interested in the holocaust and World War II. I really liked this book but I wish their was more action, when I first got this book, I thought it was going to talk about life in the camps and how the Nazi's treated the Jewish people. No it talks about how lucky this girl was and how the war effected her and her family. All in all the book was good I would recommend this book to you Mrs. Allen.
Well all of this changed once Hitler became chancellor of Germany. He stripped the Jewish citizens rights and made the Jewish workers get fired from their jobs and any Jewish person who owned their own business were shunned and everyone was told not to buy from them. Eva's father got fired and was forced to try and find a job in another place and her mother was forced to get a job to provide for their family. It still was not enough they had to sell all of their furniture and belongings just to keep their water running. Eva and her brother were kicked out of school and made to attend a Jewish school.
Eva's parents knew that this was only the beginning. So they gathered enough money to send Eva to America, where she would be safe from the Nazi's. Once Eva got to America she was introduced to her foster family and they had very strict rules and were very poor. She hated it their. So once she turned 16 she decided to join the military and got sent to Britain and was used as a children's nurse, she did this till the end of the war. That's all I'm going to say because the end of the book is close.
I recommend this book to anybody who is interested in the holocaust and World War II. I really liked this book but I wish their was more action, when I first got this book, I thought it was going to talk about life in the camps and how the Nazi's treated the Jewish people. No it talks about how lucky this girl was and how the war effected her and her family. All in all the book was good I would recommend this book to you Mrs. Allen.
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