![]() ![]() ![]() She wonders whether she dare enjoy the luxury of being a girl, of "having hair." A final brief chronology of the Holocaust adds to the value of this title for curriculum use with older readers. After the war, the teenager finds her brother, hears how her father died. On every page they express her intimate experience. Even in the slaughter of the cattle trucks strafed by machine-gun fire, "words of comfort emerge from every corner." The occasional overwriting about "drowning in a morass of pain and helplessness" is unfortunate. The teenager and her mother help each other survive they save each other from the gas chambers. ![]() Unlike many adult survivor stories, this does not show the victims losing their humanity. Horrifying as her experience is, she doesn't dwell on the atrocities. For those who have read Leitner's stark The Big Lie (1992), this is a much more detailed account, with the same authority of a personal witness. She tells of a year of roundups, transports, selections, camps, torture, forced labor, and shootings, then of liberation and the return of a few. In a graphic present-tense narrative, this Holocaust memoir describes what happens to a Jewish girl who is 13 when the Nazis invade Hungary in 1944. ![]()
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