It’s been well over two weeks since I finished reading The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom and I’m still asking myself how could I have missed this fascinating book about the holocaust. Corrie and her sister Betsie, both unmarried “spinsters” live at home in Holland with their father and a myriad of aunts. [...]
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy begins in Poland. It’s 1943 and World War II is drawing to a close. A Jewish family escapes the ghetto and are on the run with the Nazi’s close behind them. The father and stepmother must hurriedly make a decision to save [...]
Torn Thread by Anne Isaacs is a fictionalized account of the author’s mother-in-law, Eva Buchbinder and her sister Rachel and their experiences in a slave labor camp in Czechoslovakia during WWII.
The story begins as the two sisters and their father are already living in the ghetto. They curse their living conditions yet later they [...]
Number the Stars is the first book I’ve read by Lois Lowry. No doubt it won’t be the last. How I managed to ever go through my entire childhood without ever hearing about this author is beyond me. I have a lot of catching up to do. Number the Stars was [...]
Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy was another book that I couldn’t resist while at the library. It’s another holocaust book, I seem to be reading a lot of these lately. Why am I so drawn to the misery of others?
A Middle Grade Fiction book, Yellow Star tells the true story of Jennifer Roy’s [...]
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