Jeremy Dronfield
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
This powerful, moving middle grade adaptation of the adult international bestselling narrative nonfiction book The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz shines a light on the true story of two brothers who experienced the atrocities of the Holocaust in very different ways.Fritz Kleinmann was fourteen when the Nazis took over Vienna. Kurt, his little brother, was eight. Under Hitler’s brutal regime, their Austrian-Jewish family of six was cruelly...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
This powerful, moving middle grade adaptation of the adult international bestselling narrative nonfiction book The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz shines a light on the true story of two brothers who experienced the atrocities of the Holocaust in very different ways.
Fritz Kleinmann was fourteen when the Nazis took over Vienna. Kurt, his little brother, was eight. Under Hitler's brutal regime, their Austrian-Jewish family of six was cruelly...
3) The Stone Crusher : The True Story of a Father and Son's Fight for Survival in Auschwitz (Edition 1)
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was arrested by the Nazis. Along with his sixteen-year-old son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany, where a new concentration camp was being built. It was the beginning of a six-year odyssey almost without parallel. They helped build Buchenwald, young Fritz learning construction skills which would help preserve him from extermination in the coming years. But it was his bond with his...
4) The Stone Crusher : The True Story of a Father and Son's Fight for Survival in Auschwitz (Edition 1)
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was arrested by the Nazis. Along with his sixteen-year-old son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany, where a new concentration camp was being built. It was the beginning of a six-year odyssey almost without parallel. They helped build Buchenwald, young Fritz learning construction skills which would help preserve him from extermination in the coming years. But it was his bond with his...
Author
Publisher
Planeta S A Editorial
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Español
Description
En 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, un tapicero judío de Viena, fue capturado por los nazis. Junto a Fritz, su hijo adolescente, fueron mandados al campo de Buchenwald, en Alemania. Empieza así una desgarradora historia en la que sus protagonistas serán víctimas del hambre y de las palizas, mientras participan como mano de obra en la construcción del mismo campo de concentración en el que permanecerán cautivos. Cuando Gustav reciba la noticia de su...
Author
Language
English
Description
A refuge. A haven. A nightmare.
Carole Perceval lives alone on a remote Yorkshire farm, trying to forget a painful past in the solitude of the moors. Her life is one of tranquil routine, until one rain-swept night when a disheveled figure appears from the darkness.
The man has no memory, no idea who he is. His only certainties are that he is being pursued and that he must escape at all costs. He is exhausted and desperate, and the farm is his only...
Author
Language
English
Description
Near the end of World War II, thousands of Allied ex-POWs were abandoned to wander the war-torn Eastern Front. With no food, shelter, or supplies, they were an army of dying men. The Red Army had pushed the Nazis out of Russia. As they advanced across Poland, the prison camps of the Third Reich were discovered and liberated. In defiance of humanity, the freed Allied prisoners were discarded without aid. The Soviets viewed POWs as cowards, and regarded...