Signs of survival : a memoir of the Holocaust

Title
Signs of survival : a memoir of the Holocaust

Personal Author EPSB
Renée G., Hartman

Summary
Meet Renee and Herta, two sisters who faced the unimaginable -- together. This is their true story. As Jews living in 1940s Czechoslovakia, Renee, Herta, and their parents were in immediate danger when the Holocaust came to their door. As the only hearing person in her family, Renee had to alert her parents and sister whenever the sound of Nazi boots approached their home so they could hide. But soon their parents were tragically taken away, and the two sisters went on the run, desperate to find a safe place to hide. Eventually they, too, would be captured and taken to the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Communicating in sign language and relying on each other for strength in the midst of illness, death, and starvation, Renee and Herta would have to fight to survive the darkest of times.

Year Published
2021

Physical Description
123 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Personal Subject
Hartman, Renée G.

Subject
Jewish children -- Czech Republic -- Biography.
 
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Czech Republic.
 
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Czech Republic.

Geographic Term
Czechoslovakia -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
 
Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1938-1945.

Genre
Autobiographies.
 
Biographies.

Added Author
Greene, Joshua, 1950-

Summary
Meet Renee and Herta, two sisters who faced the unimaginable -- together. This is their true story. As Jews living in 1940s Czechoslovakia, Renee, Herta, and their parents were in immediate danger when the Holocaust came to their door. As the only hearing person in her family, Renee had to alert her parents and sister whenever the sound of Nazi boots approached their home so they could hide. But soon their parents were tragically taken away, and the two sisters went on the run, desperate to find a safe place to hide. Eventually they, too, would be captured and taken to the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Communicating in sign language and relying on each other for strength in the midst of illness, death, and starvation, Renee and Herta would have to fight to survive the darkest of times.

ISBN
9781338753356
 
9781338666366

Publisher
New York : Scholastic Press, [2021]


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Shauna May SenecaF HARBook31929000229958Fiction