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What Was the Holocaust?
What Was the Holocaust? | Gail Herman, Who Hq
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A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable eventthe Holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death campssix million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, whose rabid anti-Semitism led first to humiliating anti-Jewish laws, then to ghettos all over Eastern Europe, and ultimately to the Final Solution. She presents just enough information for an elementary-school audience in a readable, well-researched book that covers one of the most horrible times in history. This entry in the New York Times best-selling series contains eighty carefully chosen illustrations and sixteen pages of black and white photographs suitable for young readers. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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There is a letter from the editor before you even get to the table of contents. It is about the importance of this book and the difficulty in deciding if it was something they should include in this series.
This subject is painful and hard to read about. I had to close my eyes and take a breath a couple times. The author did a fantastic job of giving the facts without sugar coating and also very much humanizing the victims. 👇🏼

OrangeMooseReads Young readers, including the target audience will have questions after reading this. There is a lot to swallow in this book and every other book about the Holocaust. It‘s a hard subject to read and write about. I‘m glad What/Who is/was included this in their series. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5y
Emilymdxn That sounds like such an important worthwhile book and I‘m glad to hear the publishers put so much work into doing it sensitively. So important to educate young people about this 5y
OrangeMooseReads @Emilymdxn it is especially now with so few survivors left in this world that can tell their stories. 5y
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