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Trapped: Youth in the Nazi Ghettos
With her family starving, thirteen-year-old Charlene tried to smuggle eggs into a ghetto in Poland. A Nazi guard caught her and the eggs were smashed right in front of her. A few days later Charlene's friend was caught smuggling bread into the ghetto, she was murdered. Such was the fate for many Jewish youth living in the ghettos in Europe. They faced death, fear, hunger, hard labor, and disease everyday. Millions of Jews were forced into ghettos, where the Nazis kept them until they could be deported to the death camps. Through their own words, author Ann Byers explores the lives of young people living in the ghettos during the Holocaust.
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True Stories of Teens in the Holocaust series. This series presents firsthand accounts of teens' horrific experiences during the Holocaust. Descriptions of death camps, Kristallnacht, ghettos, and the roundup of Jews are vividly portrayed. Photographs, lists of resources, and chapter notes make the information accessible and encourage further reading. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind., The Horn Book Guide Fall 2010
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